Chapter Sixty two

Valerian's POV

I HAD a sinking feeling in my chest that I shouldn't have left Elena all by herself, especially at that critical moment when she felt what she was about to do was the right thing.

I probably shouldn't have blurted out that I wanted her to marry me but I felt like I was going to lose her, and at that moment I was blindingly grasping for anything to make her stay.

But Jared said it was important, which turns out that it was a minor security issue he thought was related to her mates but it wasn't.

However, I still stayed a while and waited despite my whole body protesting to run back to Elena and finish what we started if she might still be thinking of leaving but I sensed my men needed me more here. Especially right now, with how topsy-turvy everything has been since the incident at the party.

It came at the wrong time. When we were just getting our footing back after...after what happened to my father, and now this.

Jared and I were still running points on how the blood