JAKE’S POV
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. What a f*****g joke. Absence did not make my heart grow fonder. It made it heavy. It made my wolf howl and my feet lag and my eyes red. It made my heart ache and hurt and bleed all at the same time. Absence made me slowly lose my mind and it was only one day.
Clara Hansen was gone. I tried to tell my wolf that it wasn’t for good – she had to come back right? But there was a voice telling me I was wrong. What did she have to come back for? No mate. No friends bar one and I was pretty certain the only tolerable person in her family was Jessy. She could decide never to come back and I wouldn’t know where in the world to locate her. I wouldn’t know how to track her down. In that moment, I hated being a gamma. I hated not having my d
