-Bella-
It had been a little over a week since Mary left. Since then, I had become even more isolated. I barely saw anyone, and I didn’t even join my family for dinner.
I knew things had gotten so bad that my family was not just worried but genuinely frightened, yet I continued to insist that I was fine whenever they asked. I simply didn’t want to discuss it with them. Was it stupid? Maybe. But I couldn’t find the right words and feared seeing disappointment in their eyes.
I couldn’t even hold my own mate’s interest. Why wouldn’t they be disappointed in me? I felt flawed. There was nothing more to say.
“Bella?”
I lifted my eyes from the book I wasn’t truly reading. I had been thinking about Keith and his confusing reputation. Why be so destructive when you were the new alpha? But ther
