Chapter 121

Ava's POV: I could already feel the tugging in my chest, the tugging that a wolf like me would feel when separated from his mate for an extended period of time. Separation was never nice, I'd heard, and of the one rouge couple I'd met in my travels, they'd said that you could never feel whole unless you were with them. I didn't like the feeling, but I'd rather put up with it than have him break my heart again. It had only been three days, but it felt like a lifetime had passed, the way my she-wolf howled and whimpered because of the way we'd been treated, and yet she longed to be loved and accepted by the one we were meant to be with. I sighed and rubbed my hands over my face. I sat in the middle of my small flat and felt my breath come out in short, sharp puffs as I thought about the boy who kept popping into my mind. I hadn't even been able to see him properly, only that his hazel eyes haunted my dreams and nightmares whether I was awake or asleep. I shook my head, I'd never felt so