I knew I shouldn’t say anything. Maybe it would be easier for us both if Levi believed what he said, but I couldn’t say goodbye if that’s how things would be between us. Even if we never spoke again, I didn’t want to part on such bad terms. I loved him, and a selfish part of me wanted him to know that.
“Levi, it’s not –”
But he didn’t let me finish.
“I already hear you loud and clear,” he said.
My heart thumped painfully in my chest. “That’s really –”
“Just know that by severing all ties with the pack, you’ll also sever the father-daughter bond between us.”
My breath caught in my throat. I hadn’t thought about it before, but I knew he didn’t mean in a metaphorical sense. Without the pack bond, there couldn’t be any familial bonds either. It would completely sever any physical conn
