I ran, after Astrid let me go, I ran like a coward. I couldn't face her, not after what I did. I should have stayed back in the pack, even if that meant facing death, but the look in her eyes...
I couldn't handle it.
At least now I was free of Cody. I rejected him before I left, but he didn't accept my rejection. I thought I would be linked to him all my life, but a few days ago, I felt the bond snap.
I'm sure Astrid killed him, or who knows what happened; the point is, I'm no longer linked to him. My wolf had retreated after the snap. The pain of the severed bond, even one so corrupted, was too much. He’d curled up in the deepest part of my mind, a whimpering, wounded thing, leaving me truly alone. Just a man, shivering in the damp cold of the woods, with nothing but my own thoughts
