Celeste’s POV
Mother was furious when she found out that Karl left.
I returned to the compound after it happened. My heart was shattered into a million pieces as I watched the man I had once loved, back before everything went wrong, walk off into the distance.
I knew I would never see him again. I knew that Mother would do to me what she had done to my siblings once she thought I was no longer useful.
She thought that I drove Karl away. She thought that my stupidity, cruelty, and ugliness had driven him to leave the pack for another woman.
Thankfully, she didn’t know that Natalia and those two little children were still alive. She thought her plan had worked in that regard, at least, so she didn’t send anyone after them—thank the Goddess.
But as for me—well, I was the disappointment
