Erick
The air felt heavier than steel as I stepped out of the cottage.
Every breath I drew cut through me like blades. The door closed softly behind me, but its sound was deafening,the final punctuation on a moment I’d spent months chasing, and yet somehow, it felt like I’d failed again.
For the first time in my life, I wasn’t an Alpha King. I wasn’t a ruler or a conqueror. I was just a man who had broken the only woman who had ever mattered to him and was now powerless to fix it.
I stopped by the door, my hand pressed against the rough wood, and I exhaled shakily.
I could still hear her faint sobs through the wall, the sound shredding through every wall of control I’d ever built.
Don’t look back, my wolf urged softly. She needs space.
But I couldn’t listen.
I turned anyway.
Thr
