“Wait, you’re going to leave us here? How are we coming home?”
“Did you forget you have a wolf and your mate is an Alpha? He can carry you home. But in case you’re both too lazy to run, just send for me. I’ll pick you up.”
I smiled at him and nodded my head. “Thank you, Beta Dominic.”
“It’s a pleasure, Luna. Anything to make you both happy.” He smiled as he watched me get out of the car. “Just promise me you won’t give up on him.”
“I won’t. I promise.” I answered him.
But he didn’t need to tell me that. Riley is mine, and I won’t be giving him up. Ever.
“Thank you, Luna. And I promise you, I will be here every step of the way to help you as much as I can.”
I smiled at him warmly before I turned around. I didn’t waste any more time and followed the path he pointed out earlier. Good thing I was wearing a training suit, and it wasn’t hard to move in this clothing.
After a few minutes and a few sweats later, I finally reached the top of this terrain.
I saw him sitting on a big boulder with his back to me. He already had clothes on. Justin must have brought something for him.
He was holding a guitar and was playing a soothing melody.
I leaned my back on the first tree I saw, just wanting a moment to look at him and how he was in his solace. The way he strummed his guitar sent shivers down my spine. It was calming, like a lullaby wooing my heart.
Then he started singing.
I know this song.He was singing it so perfectly that I could feel every emotion he was putting into it.
“??You’re the words when I have nothing to say…You’re the fire, that warms me when I’m cold…??”
My feet moved forward, and I just found myself sitting next to him, my gaze falling on him until his head tilted to my side to look at me, and our eyes locked.
Chapter 34
RILEY.
How could I loathesomeone who was the exact replica of who I was?I wanted to kill Elliot, but I couldn’t. And I couldn’t accept the fact that I was just like him.
Or maybe worse than him.
I wanted to face him for a long time, but I didn’t know I wasn’t prepared for him.
The last two weeks were so perfect that I knew something like this would happen. Nadia and I were living in a bubble we created just for the two of us, and I couldn’t complain about it.
Andrea’s name would surface once in a while, but she wasn’t throwing tantrums or getting pissed off anymore. She would even sometimes joke about it—how Andrea broke my heart and how hard it was to sew it back. She seemed to have accepted that Andrea was a part of me but no longer is.
And I thought I could just bury that part of my life. I thought there was no need to let her know since only a few knew about it. Maybe my secret would remain hidden and my mate would never see me as the monster that I was.
But everything came crashing down when Elliot appeared.
I thought meeting him would make me feel better. I would see that he was the evil, and thus I could forgive myself. But it was the exact opposite.
I am the greater evil.
I am the villain in this story.
And I didn’t know how to rise from that.
Hunter led me to the terrain overlooking the territory on the western border. This was already too far from the packhouse, but it was better here. They would not be able to reach me. I just needed some time alone to clear my mind and to clear my conscience if I could.
