(Hunter’s POV)
I leaned against the wall outside the room that I have just left my mate behind in, and I grip my chest as pain and despair washes over me. I know it isn’t mine, and even though I can’t actually hear anything other than this damn alarm. I am subjected to images of Cassie collapsing to the floor in floods of tears.
I want more than anything to go in and sweep her up and carry her out of this awful place, to take her home and live our happily ever after, or even miserable ever after. I didn’t much care as long as it was with her by my side. But something she said hit me hard. A specific combination of events in the exact right time. I had heard those words before, a few months back when Drew and I visited Sienna at Heathwood Academy. Sienna was explaining the complicated wo
