Zane POV I knelt there in the parking lot for a long time with blood dripping from my wounds, naked and alone staring at the path where she'd disappeared with him. She'd chosen him after everything. After four years of searching, after refusing to give up when everyone told me she was dead, after going feral, after losing my pack, my home, my sanity. I thought I had finally found her but she walked away before I even had the chance to show her much I missed her. My wolf howled inside me with rage and grief and betrayal all twisted together. She didn't know, I told him. She couldn't feel the bond or tell the difference but it didn't matter because the result was the same. I'd lost her again. I heard sirens wailed in the distance as they got closer. I can't let them see me like this,

