I see Jake coming through the trees, now covered in a pair of shorts, and carrying something in his arms, hopefully clothes for me. As I really do not fancy walking back down to the pack naked.
‘Was beginning to think you had disappeared’ I link him.
He looks up at me and smiles. But I see the usual sparkle in his eyes is not really there now. Though I can understand that. He has just lost his fated mate. That could break some people. Though they were not marked or actually mated, so hopefully it would not hurt him as much as it could potentially. What scares me is the fact it was him that killed her. He took the life of his own mate, to protect someone else. Would he be able to forgive himself that?
I honestly cannot predict that. The situation with the two of them had already been
