RUBY’S POV I just couldn’t help tearing up, Shaun would be so disappointed in me and might never find a space in his big heart to forgive me. Before I left him, I promised him that I would return to him the same way I left but now I was returning without his mark on my shoulder. Aria doesn’t think the best thing to do was to leave but I think it was the best thing to do, I wasn’t even thinking straight so I had no idea of what was right at this point. I had a lot of what-ifs in my head and the sudden connection between Alpha Basil and I wasn’t helping matters, the thought of him wouldn’t let me be! The previous night, I checked my shoulder and when I found out that I no longer bare his mark, I just knew that the best thing to do would be to leave. “You can’t leave Ruby, how am I expe

