Chapter 95

I pull myself to my feet, head determined and surprisingly free of tears, despite her breaking her heart and crying floods as she watches me move. She stays immobile like she’s stuck on the grass, unable to do anything else for now. It hurts more than anything in the world, not too dissimilar a pain to having Colton reject me, but there’s something inside me pushing on and keeping me calm. I can’t sit here and wait for the inevitable and then cry when it all goes how I expect it to. I need to take control of my own life and do what I always intended. I had a plan! A chosen path before I imprinted. To leave Radstone and the Santos behind and make it on my own. If the Fates wanted me to be mated and stay, they wouldn’t have made me his. They knew this would happen; they know everything, and yet they threw dynamite in the fishpond and sat back as chaos ensued. “Tell him I don’t want to see him for a few days if he asks that I need headspace. That I don’t want to train. I’ll leave sometime