“I couldn’t let you go,” Michelle said with finality.
She wanted to cry when she said it out loud but Shane shouldn’t have to deal with that she thought. Instead she sat back in her seat. She tried not to feel small as she spoke, but the more she did she felt like the world was swallowing her up.
“Hildi noticed my emotional decline while being on the road and being we didn’t really know each other that well, she told me that she didn’t want me to feel like she was forcing her way in. It was an exercise of mutual respect, she said. Where if she found me writing, she would give me time before conversing with me.” Michelle said, remembering all of the times Hildi would pop in only to throw her hands up and excuse herself as if she found Michelle in the bathroom.
“She was a good Alpha to m
