Maya wept quietly throughout the journey to the Lycan Kingdom. Reid didn’t know what to do. She had turned her back to him the entire time and stared out the window. Her eyes were red and puffy, and she wiped at silent tears with her palms every few seconds.
He never wanted a mate in the first place, never looked for one. Having witnessed the effect a mate had on a Lycan, and how it changed his best friend Gideon, he decided to stay away from wolf mingling events and stick to the she-wolves he already knew, considering them safer options. Luckily, there were quite a few who were always ready to keep him company.
Being single was supposed to be for the best. He wasn’t a family man anyway. Maybe fun uncle material, but that was it. He was a Beta and needed to focus on his work at all times
