Evaline:
I stopped breathing.
The world didn't slow - it collapsed. Time folded in on itself, pulling me back to a memory I never wanted to revisit. But the famikiar and haunting face walking toward us dragged me there anyway.
He was looking just the same and yet somehow worse. Time had sharpened his features, but to me, he was nothing more than a storm I thought I had outlived.
My chest tightened as memories surged to the surface, pounding into my ribs with every step he took closer.
The boy I had once looked at like he hung the moon. The one I trusted blindly. The one I was ready to spend the rest of my life with.
And the man who told me I was never enough.
The mate who humiliated me in front of the entire pack while my stepsister clung to his arm like she already owned him. Because she did, didn't she?
He chose her.
