He left me standing there, broken, hollow. I didn’t see him for hours. That night, a sense of resolve grew within me. I was done waiting for Alpha Damon to see me, to care for me, to want this family as much as I did.

“I’m done, Alpha,” I whispered in the air.

“I’m done trying to make you love me. I’m here for our child, but you and I… this,” I gestured around us, “this is over. You can have your freedom. You never wanted me, anyway,” I added as if he's just in front of me.

I decided that night to cut my ties with Alpha Damon. I know that it was my fault to stay with him. It was my choice to carry his child. But I can't take this anymore.

It's time for me to leave so he could be happy with Georgina… the woman he truly loves.

THE NIGHT GEORGINA returned to the pack was the night my world began to unravel.

I had been sitting by the fire in the Alpha’s mansion, relishing the quiet evening, when Alpha Damon came in, his arm around her shoulders. She looked fragile and lost. There was a haunted look in her eyes, a reflection of the pain I knew must have brought her back.

But I didn’t see it as a reason for Alpha Damon’s sudden and all-consuming care.