“Yes, Elaine suffered. We all saw it, we lived through it,” Kathy said softly, her voice trembling as memories flooded her mind. “And the worst part was… we were never given a chance to make it right.” Her eyes clouded with guilt and grief. She could still remember the way Elaine’s face crumbled when she found out about her and Michael’s mating. The anguish in her sister’s eyes was something that would haunt Kathy for the rest of her life.
They had all witnessed Elaine’s devastation. Her pain was raw, uncontainable—a wound that spread like wildfire. And knowing that they, the very people she trusted most, were the cause of it—it destroyed them. But they couldn’t show it. They weren’t allowed to. They had to pretend that everything was fine, that the Alpha’s decision was just and necessary
