Chapter 30: Don’t Fall
Sariah
When Sterling returned to my room, it was already quite late at night. He jumped slightly when he saw me sitting up in bed wide awake.
“I was expecting you to be asleep,” he muttered. “It’s late.”
I was not sure if the hardness I perceived in his voice was imagined or not. Was he growing tired of me? Our relationship had not even really begun.
“Is everything alright?” I asked.
“Everything’s fine,” said Sterling, perching on the edge of the bed to remove his boots.
I watched him gather all his things and go straight to the bathroom without another word, promptly closing the door behind me.
He hates me, I said to myself.
He always acts like that, said the other me whom I’d come to realise was my wolf.
He’s usually a bit curious about how my day was, I
