KATE
I spent the rest of the day with Peter and Elara, soaking in every moment, every laugh, every shared story… and I won’t lie, it all felt bittersweet, like I was savoring the last bite of something delicious, knowing it was the last time I’d ever get to taste it, because I knew, deep down, that this was it—
My final moment with them.
The decision had already been made in my heart.
I wasn’t going to stay in this Pack anymore. I was going to renounce all of them and go off in search of something new, because truly, there was nothing left for me here anymore.
For so long, I had been fighting, clawing for a place to belong, to be accepted.
But I knew now that it was never going to happen.
Not in this lifetime, no.
And now, with everything that had happened, I realized I didn’t
