Nathan POV
I left the clinic feeling on edge, my wolf restless. We had been with Claire again, held her, tasted her - and been rejected by her.
Knowing Claire didn’t really mean the rejection didn’t lessen the physical pain I had felt, or the hollow emptiness that lingered after it.
I went back to work after leaving the clinic, tried to bury myself in tasks. There was my campaign to become Alpha President, after all, and on top of that all the many daily tasks an Alpha needs to do or oversee in order to keep his pack happy and healthy, strong and safe.
Being an Alpha was what I was raised to do. It was who I was. I couldn’t afford to let my personal life interfere with that.
And yet, I struggled to focus the entire day. I regularly lost track of conversations, and more than once I cau
