Riley POV
I had to force myself to go back to the packhouse. I feel like a coward who ran out on her mate with no explanation. I spent hours running and then sitting in the woods, reflecting on everything that Damien had done to me. I remembered the collar and the pain he would put me through for every little thing. I remembered the humiliation, the degradation, and the abuse like I was experiencing it at his hands all over again. Why had I saved him? Why had my siren side shown such compassion to somebody who I felt didn't deserve to be saved? If I had known it was Damien, I would have left him in his feral wolf form and killed him. It was cold-blooded, and it was wrong, but I felt such rage towards him, it was all I could do to control my emotions, only to give way to loud and grief-fil
