MIAS POV

"I said leave."

My voice was sharp. Too sharp for how shaky I felt inside.

Please just go. Please don't make this harder than it already is.

Xavier didn't flinch. None of them did. Four men nofour wolvesstood in front of me like they'd been waiting their entire lives for this moment.

"Do you think we can?" Xavier murmured, his voice raw and barely tethered. "After five years of nothing? Five years of craving you in silence? No, Mia. Our wolves ...