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“You really think so?”
“I do.”
Maybe if it were the pack who had saved me that horrible night, instead of Dom, I’d actually believe something between us were possible. But as Luna smiles at the nurses who immediately take me back to look at my hands, I can’t shake the feeling that I’ve lost too much of myself these past six years to have anything left to give them.
CHAPTER 18
Theo
She threw herself out of the window.
She threw herself out of thefuckingwindow.
And I was the closest to her. I should’ve stopped her, somehow. What if this weren’t the first floor? What if she’d fallen and gotten seriously hurt?
It would’ve been my fault.
God, she’s been so pissed at me. That would’ve been yet another thing to add to my list of fuckups.
She ran, too. She ran like she was running for her life. Like she couldn’t wait to get away.
My body remains frozen, rooted to the floor. I can’t help but feel like part of that is my fault. She’s the most upset with me, about this whole situation. For good reason, too.
I was the one who pretended to be a John soliciting her time.
This happens all the time. Men think that women who are paid to spend time with them are far more interested in them than they actually are. Is that what happened here?
Was I too blinded by her wit, her spark, her beauty, to see that she was just spending time with me because that was what she was paid to do?
I grit my teeth at the thought.
No. I refuse to believe that. If she was faking it the entire time, she wouldn’t have cared to know whether or not I was pretending.
“Oh my god! Reyna, wait!” Luna, the Ward Pack’s omega says, running toward the window.
“What the fuck!” Killian roars, rushing toward the window, too.
“Hey, calm the hell down,” Archer, the Ward Pack’s leader snaps, wrapping his arms around Killian and stopping him from following Reyna out the window.
“Let go of me,” Killian grits out, his voice dangerously low.
“I don’t think that’s a good idea,” Archer responds in kind. “Trust me on this. The last thing a scared Southside omega needs is an angry alpha chasing after her.”
Killian deflates in Archer’s arms and gives him a jerky nod.
“God, she made this look a lot easier,” Luna huffs, climbing out of the window.
“Where are you going?” I ask her, my brows drawn down.
“After her! Just because an angry alpha shouldn’t go after her doesn’t mean I can’t. She needs someone there.”
“Let me come with you,” Madden says.
Part of me wants to protest, to insist that I go instead, but I know Madden isn’t going for Reyna. If I were bonded, I wouldn’t let my mate out of my sight either, if I could help it. Especially if she’d just been kidnapped a few months before.
As the two of them leave the same way Reyna did, the silence in the room starts to become deafening.
“How do you know Reyna?” Stone grits out.
