Chapter 49. All of It

Tessa’s POV

Knox drives me home.

I don’t remember most of it. I remember Wyatt’s coat around me in the back seat and Knox’s eyes in the rearview mirror, gold and stunned, checking on me every ten seconds. I remember the whole reserve still quiet behind us, two hundred wolves standing in the dark like they’d forgotten how to run. I remember Wyatt standing in the parking lot under the last lantern, watching the car pull away, not following.

Because I asked him not to.

“Tomorrow,” I said, through the open car window. My voice was shaking. “Not tonight. I can’t tonight.”

He nodded. He didn’t argue. He just stood there with his hands at his sides and let me go.

I felt him the whole way home. Down the thread. Getting farther away, but never gone.

Darcy was waiting on the couch with a blanket and every single snack we owned. She took one look at me in a man’s coat with my hair full of pine needles, and she didn’t ask a single question. She just ope