Is the Luna training? Desmond asked his beta. Yes, Alpha. She has been there since morning, like always. He was lost in his troubled thoughts. It had been a month, and Odessa had been avoiding him ever since that night, when she had a nightmare. The fear she had in her eyes made his chest twist in pain. He had dreaded this day, the day when she would look up at him with fear in her eyes, when she would see him for the monster he was. He exhaled a deep breath and ran his hand through his hair for the thousandth time. He missed her so much. Ever since she had grown distant, he had begun feeling his blood l**t surface again before it was suppressed. And he had an inkling it was because of her. Because she was there. He had snapped at his beta more times this morning than he could

