Chapter 65: Two Years of Emotional Unavailability Pt. 1

Aziz

Almost two years to the day. A day that changed everyone’s lives. Specifically, Alastair…and not for the better.

My counterpart had become a robot since the death of our pup. None of us changed particularly for the better, but Alastair was definitely the worst. And admittedly...I was hardly any better off.

After the loss of Valene, we immediately went for a run. It wasn’t intentional but instinctual. We kept running and running until we could run no longer. We finally realized what we had done in leaving the pack and our town…our people when we found ourselves in Montana.

Alastair wanted to run back home on his own accord, but I insisted that we did not. Grief-stricken and having been over five days without food or water, it wouldn’t be too much longer before I’d turn feral and him along with me.

I’d tried to convince him to get a hotel somewhere until Toran or Minken showed up to drive us back home. He wouldn’t. Somehow, my counterpart felt comfort in being in my skin versus his