Chapter 23. Running Away

ALANA

I cried myself to sleep that night knowing that I really have to leave the palace and William’s side once he married that beautiful woman.

Yes, I am his mate but what could a mate like me do for him? My father doesn’t want me. He treated me like a slave. I don’t have a family. I don’t have anything in me for me to be worthy of William.

I have nothing against the princess.

I am nothing when compared to her.

With a small bag in my hand carrying some clothes for me to last a few days, I sneaked out of the room to leave the palace.

Droplets of rain pouring down on me but that doesn’t stop me from crying, the brief memories of me and William in the times that we have been together begin to assault me.

I don’t know but leaving him like this hurts more than the abandonment of my own father.

“Alana!” I heard William’s voice from my back but I did not stop and just continued walking beneath the rain with my head down, tea