Leo kept his distance from me for the next couple of days. I wondered if it was as painful for him as it was for me. Now that our mate bond had been awakened and so had my wolf, I was in near agony being away from him and not knowing how he felt about me or what he planned to do with me.

We’d left off on such a sour note that I truly didn’t know how to process any of what had happened, nor the intimate moments we had shared before the mate bond existed. Had that ...