Chapter 58. Want

Valerie

It was a clear statement, refuting no questions behind it yet my heart was still pounding in my chest.

‘Why?’

He had indirectly been the reason for my death in the last life and even though I kept my distance at first, I never faulted him for it. We didn't know each other then past the normal gossip around the pack. The circumstances in that life had led to an escalation of that unresolvable conflict. It was excusable, a sad tragedy of events that had never taken place in this life.

But this? This wasn't excusable. It was malicious. In doing so he had harmed me.

‘He had almost harmed my baby,’ I thought with chilling horror.

And for the friendship we'd bore, hell even as acquaintances who had worked together for months I trusted him. Even if not with everything , but as a friend of sorts? I had come here to his pack because of that trust.

And now...

The bitter twinge of