*William's POV*
It shouldn't have felt this painful.
I knew rejection was meant to be the most painful thing a wolf could face, but I never realised just how painful it was until I was forced to do it.
And now I knew my life would never be the same again.
It felt like my soul had literally been ripped in half, and it was so excruciatingly painful that I knew I wouldn't be able to recover from it. My wolf felt defeated, and he couldn't even bring himself to argue with my decision. I told myself it was for the best, but we both knew that I had probably condemned us to a life of misery and loneliness.
And that it had to be Claire Monroe was what destroyed me. She had been so perfect, and everything about her told me that it was going to be a perfect union; it had to be. After all, th
