Elise felt like she had been doing nothing but sleeping for over two days, trying to quench that burning ache in her, tossing and turning around her bed.
Her heart ached every time she looked at the door and smelled a familiar pheromone and sees shadow of the alpha king wanting to come in, but she had locked her doors and held her tongue to prevent any tears from slipping.
"It's better this way," she thought, repeating those words like a mantra. Along with overthinking scenarios from her abduction and Alvira's hurtful words in the past few days, her mind was a mess.
She felt like her memory was a broken glass, being embedded tighter piece by piece, and it frightened her to learn the extent of it—to learn what her wolf had done to those men, no, what 'she' had done.
“Lady…Elise?”
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