After I left the examination room, I walked alone through the pack's territory for a long time.
Moonlight filtered through the trees onto the path. The air smelled of pine and damp earth.
Those familiar scents brought back things I'd tried to leave behind.
"Selene." I reached inward. "How are you doing?"
"Not great," she admitted, her voice low. "Seeing him again , I'm all over the place."
"I hate him. For what he did to us."
"But I also... I can still feel something. A trace of the bond that's left. It makes me sick, but it's there."
I breathed in slowly.
"I know. Me too."
"But Selene , we can't go backward. He has Victoria. And we have our own path to walk."
She was quiet for a while.
"Elena,do you think he regrets it?"
I gave a short, humorless laugh.
"Maybe. But what does
