AJ'S POV
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Diana, you are killing me. Does she know how wildly my heart beat, or how restless my wolf became whenever she wasn't near? Does she know how terrified I was when I saw those wolves attacking her?
Did she know she was destroying me, inch by slow inch?
"You should go back to your pack," she said, her thick lashes fluttering as her hazel eyes shifted from me toward the glow of the water. But it was her eyes I wanted to see. "Your Alpha is calling."
"Damn my Alpha," I gritted out, my jaw tight. I moved closer, leaving hardly any room between us to breathe—because that suffocating feeling was exactly what I'd felt when I walked into the room with our bags and realized she was gone.
If Pinkie hadn't told me she had run into the woods, I would have lost her, either to those feral wolves or to the unknown.
"Where were you headed?"
"I told you," her voice was small, "I need independence."
