Roman had told me not to come back until I could respect Isabella’s wishes, but he didn’t feel that pull with her wolf that I had every f*****g night lately. Neither he nor she respected her wolf’s wishes. For nights, I’d been holding myself back from claiming her aching wolf, who was mine, who I should’ve claimed already, who wanted me.
meI didn’t know how much longer I would be able to hold back.
We needed each other more than Isabella could even understand.
And if Roman and Isabella couldn’t see that, then I needed to wait a bit longer, needed to hold out to prove to her that Roman wasn’t the man she should be with. No matter how shitty it was, I had to do this for us.
“We need our mate,” my wolf growled inside my mind.
“We need our mate,”After balling my hands into fists, I contin
