Chapter 88

Gavin's POV 

I'm just trying to follow my mind and avoid obstacles that I can voluntarily avoid.

"You're choosing her over me? Over everything we had?" Emma's voice quivers with a mix of anger and heartbreak.

I reach out to her, my hand trembling, wanting to ease her pain even in the face of my turmoil. "I never wanted to cause you this pain, Emma. But sometimes, we must make choices that are difficult but necessary. I hope one day you can understand."

As the room falls into an uneasy silence, the weight of our words hangs heavily upon us. This is one moment in our lives I'll never forget, the love I have for Emma is still strong but Mia is stronger and she is my mate. Now is a painful reckoning, a moment where the consequences of our actions ripple through the very fabric of our beings. I take my mind back to when I met her at the troops base, she was so beautiful yet tough and the only female among all the soldiers, I'd never seen a lady among the toughest mi