120: A leap of fate

Aurora’s POV

I traveled for what felt like an eternity, the landscape shifted and morphed around me, a blur of colors and shapes that seemed to mirror the tumultuous whirlwind of emotions churning within my own heart.

From trains to cars, and everything in between, I spared no expense in my quest for distance—distance from the pain, from the memories, and most of all, from Alpha Caden. I don’t want to be anywhere around him now or ever.

With cash in hand and my card as backup, I journeyed onward, each passing mile a testament to my determination to put as much space as possible between myself and the man who had turned my world upside down.

And though I knew deep down that Alpha Caden could find me if he truly wanted to, a part of me clung to the hope that perhaps he wouldn't, that perhaps he would let me disappear into the vast expanse of the world without a second thought. I want that.

But even as I traversed the winding roads and bustling cities, the shadow of his absence loom