Tears fell onto his phone screen.
Marcus sent message after message.
Professing his enduring love.
Confessing his betrayals.
But each message bounced back undelivered.
I had blocked him completely.
Marcus didn’t hesitate any longer, driving frantically to join the search parties,
But it was too late.
They found no trace of me at the rogue attack site.
Meanwhile, my flight had already landed overseas.
The staged rogue attack had been my parting gift.
My carefully laid trap for the Alpha who had tried to destroy me.
He wanted me scarred, wanted my wolf dead, wanted me living in his web of lies.
So I’d left him a gift of my
ft of my own…
My friend Oliver waited at the airport, gasping when she saw my burned flesh. T
She touched the scars gently, tears streaming down her face.
“How could this happen? Marcus promised to protect you! He swore a mate’s oath!”
“Did he do this? Why can only foreign healers help you? It was him, wasn’t it? Sarah, why are you still protecting him? Can’t you see his true nature now?”
I wiped her tears away with a gentle smile.
“I’m okay, see? Still breathing.”
“I chose to stay with him before. Let this be a lesson learned. I’m done with his games. This clean break is for the best.”
“How are the arrangements with the healer? I want to recover before going home. No need to worry the family.”
Oliver nodded quickly.
“Everything’s ready. The pack’s best healer has reviewed your case. He says there’s a strong chance of reviving your wolf. But we
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can’t delay – I’m taking you there now!”
The healing ritual lasted ten hours.
The healer said we’d caught it in time – one more days and my wolf would have been lost forever.
“Your wolf is wounded, not dead,” he explained. “With proper training, you can rebuild your bond. You might even reclaim your
Alpha power.”
“The silver poisoning was meant to kill your wolf completely. But something protected her – your own strength, perhaps. Or
maybe…” he smiled knowingly, “she was too stubborn to die.”
I tried to ignore news from my old territory.
But Marcus’s pack was too powerful to avoid.
My phone constantly buzzed with updates from the werewolf networks.
