River
He had almost done it. He had almost convinced himself to go through with the wedding, to give Ellie the benefit of the doubt and follow through with the promise he'd made when he'd entered the tournament.
If he hadn't happened to step outside right when he had, he'd be standing at the altar right now, waiting for her to make her way down the aisle on her father's arm, instead of speeding off toward home in his car.
It was all making sense now. Why she'd been acting so differently the last couple of days. Clearly, Miss Ellie Knight was a fickle woman, her heart flittering from one Alpha to another. She thought she wanted to be with River one moment and thought she wanted to be with someone else another moment. She claimed that she and Ulysses were just friends, but they'd spent a
