I gazed at the man in the f*****g mirror and sighed. I could barely recognize myself after I let my mate leave me without putting up much of a fight. A part of me had hoped that she wouldn’t go through with it. A part of me had hoped that this was all some f****d up dream. But she was stubborn, and this was all my fault. She should be with me. She should’ve been on the team. Not Vanessa. But I had been so f*****g jealous and terrified that Ryker would take her away from me that I couldn’t let it happen. Now, it had happened. My mate was at his pack, living in his house, getting close to that asshole. Any day, she could go through her heat. Any f*****g day. And I had no way of knowing when it would be. Would she be strong enough to resist any other guy who wanted to mate her? There were

