Matt POV
I just needed to go for a run. The pain in my chest wasn’t clearing, and it burned through me like a silver bullet had shot straight through my heart. My eyes blurred as tears filled them, but I wiped them away furiously. I was hurting, but I was angry.
I was angry at the Moon Goddess, for cursing me. Why, out of all the shewolves out there, did it have to be my mate? Why was she being repeatedly ripped away from me? She no longer respected the mate bond, she was jealous, full of rage. She wasn’t the Bella I used to know, and it scared me.
I took off into the woods, deciding to run in human form. I needed the ache of my human body to take my mind away from the ache in my chest, so I ran and ran until my lungs burned and my legs felt wobbly. When that happened, I stopped and
