Chapter 199. Chosen

Giovanna sat down on the sofa. She was stunned. She felt she had lost everything. Her dignity, her imaginary son, whom she wanted anyway, and the most marvellous man she had ever met. Science would consider someone with Luc's behaviour to be bipolar, but she knew he wasn't. He made himself different, he innovated. He made himself different, he innovated, with the sole intention of pleasing her. What he said about her always being his alone wasn't just a figure of speech. He loved her and couldn't control his possessive instinct. His werewolf side had certainly been strengthened over all those generations.

Giovanna went to the room where she slept next to Theo, or was it Luc too? It didn't matter any more. She took her clothes out of the wardrobe and folded them carefully in her suitcase. No hurry. She wanted, for the first time, Luc to come back and stop her from leaving, no matter what form it took, but deep down she knew that he would never be hers a