ASHER’S POV
Seeing Amelia after all this time, I felt that familiar ache in my chest. The one I thought had gone away, the one I believed should have disappeared entirely. How in the world was the bond still there? She had a new mate, I could see him there, standing next to her where I should have been. And even if she didn’t have a new mate, the bond should have fully disappeared by now. But it remained; an agonizing presence that refused to let me forget my failures. Axel whimpered in my head, pining for the mate we had so callously rejected. Was this the Moon Goddesses punishment for us?
The meeting had further opened my eyes to what a disgrace I had been, not just as future Alpha but as a mate. Seeing Aemlia and her new mate’s closeness had almost driven me and Axel to the brink of
