As Ares wrapped his arms around me and held me closer, the stream ran around us and I felt everything that I had been before he came into my life washing away with the last of the mud.
It felt bittersweet - I was ridding myself of the oppression I felt living with Luc, but we were about to walk back to his pack and to the woman who had every right to call herself his mate even though I knew that was not what he believed anymore.
We hadn’t spoken about exactly what he would tell the others when we got there. It was clear that the fact we had slept together was supposed to remain private, and I had been able to figure out that the others had already left before we even kissed that first time.
I didn’t know anything about how his pack lived other than the fact they lived in the mountains,
