CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Zachary’s POV:

Excitement bubbled in my veins as I reversed my car at the parking lot near the border.

Duncan could not stop pacing in my head, ready to claim what was rightfully his.

Evvie. Our beautiful lost mate.

The day she left the pack was the day I suddenly forgot how to breathe. It felt like my soul was ripped apart from me. A part I’ve been missing ever since.

Five years.

Those four years were filled with regrets and immeasurable guilt. But the last year, oh I’d made up for those past four years by bathing myself in my thoughts of her.

And she’d reappear in most of my dreams, taking me back to the day before I left for training camp.

It was just her and me back then. Snuggled in one another’s arms. I remember very clearly, the fire of passion burning in her eyes when she kissed me, pulling me in deep.

I never should have left.

Those words never failed to come across. Every day of my life since she disappeared. Every day I cursed myself for my stupidity. I’d let them trick me