Chapter 39 - Cayden

I rush along the familiar forest trails after the two doctors, now taking Evelyn to the hospital to finally check her over. Her laid out on the collapsible hospital stretcher, looking vulnerable and broken. They say she is healing, but until I see her awake, speaking telling me she is okay I will not settle.

My heart is in pieces in worry for her, yet my body filled with rage for the things my so-called best friend had implied. When he had told me she was his second-chance mate earlier it had hurt, all the things he knew I felt for her, yet he told me through mindlink. There were better ways to have done this, and he knows it.

But I accepted it, despite the pain within my heart. Despite the fact I had allowed the sweet girl into my heart, albeit reluctantly and fearfully at first. But she had brought a lightness I could not explain. And one I did not want to lose. Yet hearing the words she was his second-chance mate, while it hurt, I had taken and given them their spa