Zaid sat up in bed, lifting his shirt to look at the healed wound against his side. He still couldn’t believe it, that woman who loved him too much to refuse him even when he was blatantly being unreasonable had stabbed him with the intention to kill. Since then, he barely ever slept, and he could not fathom why…the fact that she wasn’t around anymore gave his mind no rest or peace and the matebond was like a storm within him; wrecking him inside out…all for her. His wolf too has been acting out…that beastly side of him that acted on instincts seemed to be blaming him; it keeps howling in longing and clawing at the cage that bounded it with persistence, agony and desperation. It wanted to be set free, to take control…to become feral. Zaid had heard it before…a man who lost his mate coul