I am the best shooter in the pack...and most likely amongst the shifter community. Not every fight needs to have a wolf. But, yes, you are right, I've broken my promise to you.

You entered an agreement of just sex, of no-strings-attached fun...and here I am trying to give you a rope to hang around your own neck."

Fuck, her words are like a million daggers pressing deep into my chest plate.

"Josie..." My wolf is urging me to calm her somehow, to ease her pain but what does he expect me to do exactly. I've fucking caused this.

"You should go. I've got an early start tomorrow...and I need to sort something out in the cabin. I'll be over soon."

It takes all my mental strength to leave her, to abandoned her in the early night..in the meadows whilst she is crushed.

I can hear her sobs as I walk away, it's the most painful sound of my life. I've broken her.

It is a battle to walk in a straight line back to the alpha house, my wolf continues to fight me to return...and he slips through the veil repeatedly. Forcing me to backstep only for my human side to regain full control. Hell punish me for this, like he promised. I'll have to ensure I'm on full alert from now on.

I make no attempts at conversation as I enter the alpha house...I feel like a cheat having broken her heart and then walking in on the walls she feels the safest.

I need to get out of here, to hit the road for a few days. Stay in a hotel, give her some space until I can come back and sort things out with Alpha Hector before leaving for good.

"Knox?" Alpha Kaia's forehead creases slightly as she finds me standing still in the hallway, my eyes staring at my keys on the sideboard. I'm not sure how long I have remained like this, my mind is spiralling but her sudden intrusion jolts me out of it.

"I need to go away for a few days..." I respond in a monotone fashion.

"Okay, is everything alright?" She steps in closer. She wouldn't be this nice to me if she knew where her daughter was right now.

"I just need to sort something out..." I refuse to look at her, I can't look Josie's mother in the eye knowing what I have just done. This is Josie's house and I shouldn't even be here.

"Could you let Alpha Hector and Alpha Jaxon know that when I get back, I'm ready to give them a full report and hand over before I leave." My wolf makes a final attempt to push through the veil but I'm in control now, full control. He won't be getting through that easily from

now on.

"So soon?"novelbin

"Yes, I need to get back to the training program before it restarts."

"Of course..." She takes a step towards me, concern continuing to be edged upon her forehead. A hand even reaches out and lands on my arm.

"...are you sure you are okay?"

"Yes, thank you for your hospitality...I'll be back in a few days to collect my things."

"I'll make sure they are ready for you."

"Thank you Alpha Kaia." I snatch my motorcycle keys off the sideboard before heading out of the door.

Placing my helmet on my head, I swallow down nausea that tries to rise up...a sick feeling of foreboding washing over me. This was for the best.

If I go back to check on her she'll think I've changed my mind...and one look at her and I think I will. She has the ability to floor me. Even I am not that strong.

I kick my motorcycle into life, its roaring noise doing little to calm my mind, like it used to.

This was for the best.