Chapter 56

The strength that had returned to Matt's body upon seeing Beth's face vaporized as soon as he lost sight of her through the billowing smoke that rolled across the street ahead and into the alleyway. Gone. Again.

Every time she slipped back into his life, she slipped away just as quickly. Even the time he had spent at the Heether pack house in the same damn building with only a few walls between them at most, she was always out of reach.

But he knew why. This wasn't eighteen-year-old Beth who would discover she was his mate and fall in love with him.

This was the Beth from nearly ten years in the future who remembered everything Matt had done to her, the same Beth he had betrayed so many times and never paid for it, except in grieving his loss when he finally realized what he had done.

She hated him. Or rather - she hated who she thought he would become.

She didn't know he was the same Matthew Catii who had hurt her time and again until she breathed her last. That was his saving gra