“What the f**k?!” Atlas shouts. I’m utterly stunned and frozen stiff. She ran. She f*****g ran! Sorrell has run away from me in the past, but this hits different. She’s my animai, just like I knew she was. It took all morning for me to summon the courage to come down to training. I was terrified I’d get here and find out I was wrong, but as soon as I got to the training field her scent hit me like a freight train, and in the best way possible. Atlas was prancing with delight, and I couldn’t get to her fast enough. I’ve never been so happy in my life, and I thought she’d be happy too. She wouldn’t have to worry about this fear of not being mine because she is mine, she was made for me as I was made for her. But instead of being happy, she hightailed it out of here and ran so fast she almost
