(Caspien)
My rage felt finite. I guessed at some of her past, but nothing that I imagined was even close to this. I knew something wasn’t right when Nolan made it seem like a mutual rejection. He didn’t even deserve the title Alpha, even in my f.ucking mind.
But this?
Rejected in public a few months before taking the title, as soon as he found out about her being pregnant? Then publicly claiming another who he was obviously cheating with? You rarely hear of that happening; I didn’t know anyone that rejected their mate or cheated personally.
The only thing that was keeping me from slipping into that place that I hated, the place that everyone thought was me but didn’t feel like it, was the fact that her hand was in mine.
That small gesture felt like a tether to the world and pulled me
