Chapter 112

I tip my chin up, feeling him move back, so I can look at him and try to dry my tears as I swallow down the mess going off inside of me.

“He was a stupid cat… it doesn’t matter.” I have to force the words out through garbled sniffs as I try to push him away, ashamed at my heart-wrenching reaction to losing something that wasn’t even mine. He catches my hands and pulls me into his arm once more as he slides it about my shoulders, turns us, and carefully guides me to the building. Treating me like fragile china as he makes sure I’m steady on my feet and leads me to the door without letting me go.

I give in and let him, needing his strength right now as my heart bleeds out of my body, and I cannot bear to look back and see Feral lying there alone.

“Don’t leave him like that!!” I jerk my face up in alarm, voice crushed with the depth of pain I am in, panic slicing through me at that thought, and he turns to me swiftly. Complete exhaustion is swimming over me with the t