CLAUDE
HOW LONG HAD it been since I mated my mate? Three months? Four? f**k, I wasn’t even sure anymore. Time blurred when every day felt like this, a cycle I couldn’t break no matter how much I wanted to.
On the surface, everything was going well. The pack was thriving, stronger than ever. Since my mating with Ava, our lands had merged, resources had doubled, and we had secured our place among the top ten most powerful packs in the world. The borders that once separated us had been brought down, our people moving freely between both territories, the unity strengthening us in ways I couldn’t deny.
But none of it meant anything to me.
Being mated to Ava was hell.
Every chance she got, she tried to pull me into bed, her hands wandering even when I made it clear I didn’t want h
