Emmett Pov
I woke up, sighing, rolling over to touch the empty side of the bed. Colt was gone, and I somehow figured he would be. Last night was hard for him. He barely slept, and right before it was midnight he ran off, saying he was too scared to be near me. I thought he’d just pour some water on his face and come back, but he never did. All of the self-doubt he’s been going through lately, and then Lexi said, “What if you guys find out that you’re really true mates?” I think it...broke him. He was flipping out, confused, going back and forth between fear that I am true mates with someone else, and happiness of the possibility that we are true mates ourselves. Mostly he was depressed, thinking that he wasn’t good enough to have a true mate because he wasn’t as special as his mother, and
