Twenty one

ALPHA RHYS.

It had been days leading up to weeks since Arabella died. I opened her corpse the other day and couldn't look at her rotten body. It was hard to swallow the pill. Her death had been hard on me.

And I could feel it affecting the pack too. I had started to do things I wouldn't normally do. Like using the maids to make me forget for a moment.

Her death had changed me a great deal and I have not been able to handle it well. Then I thought that marking Mia and making her the Luna would make this better. And it would make the bond stronger because since Arabella died, the bond grew worse.

She slipped off my hands. Her presence didn't make me feel anything. If anything I felt worse.

I felt hollow. Empty. Void. It wasn't good at all.

Mia made that hole worse. It made me question the mate bond a lot of times. How could I feel a lot more attracted to someone who wasn't my mate?

That in her absence I felt like a dead man.

Then I thought making her the Luna of the pack and ma