I will find you again and... again.

Connor.

Seconds passed after she stormed out, drawing longer than an eternity.

Every single word, the daring look in her eyes. It all reverberated in my mind.

I gripped the nearest tree trunk, leaning on it as the memory almost brought me to my knees.

She was here.

Seeing her for the second time didn't make it any more unbelievable.

Almost a whole year had passed. A year of hopelessness, of searching for her and continuously pining for her existence.

And all this time, she was here.

Under a different name no less.

‘Kiara'

That was what Isabella had called her the first time. Which one was a different name from the one I knew her with.

‘Not too different.,' Aster, my wolf, agreed.

Which one was real? Between the woman I'd seen in the diner or this bitter one that ran from me at every turn, who was the real her?

Who was she?

I shut my eyes tightly against the onslaught of questions. Whatever I needed to know, I wasn't going to find it here.

The not-too-distant music and squeals behind