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I slammed the door of Alexander’s receiving room behind me.

And Dylan stood barely a foot away, his eyes wide with surprise.

Great. Just great.

Because today couldn’t get any better.

I stormed past him, but Dylan couldn’t seem to take the hint that I wasn’t in the mood for chitchat.

I heard him easily catching up with me.

“Eleanor,” he called out.

I ignored him, walking out of the pack house as fast as my legs could carry me, but Dylan had longer legs.

“Eleanor.”

I ignored him again.

“Eleanor—”

I spun on my heels to face him, pent-up anger lacing every word that left me.

“What do you want?” I growled.

Dylan took a step back, obviously surprised by my aggression. Then his face tightened, and I knew I wouldn’t like his response.

“You,” he said simply.

What. An.Idiot.

CHAPTER 9

ELEANOR

Iwas burning up, and not because of the intensity in Dylan’s gaze as he stared at me.

“I understand it’s hard for you to look beyond my mistake with Micah. But I promise you that since that night, I haven’t been able to be with her. I can’t.”

I’d never heard Dylan sound so passionate, his face a mask of regret and more than a hint of self-loathing.

Maybe that was the reason my anger began to falter. My cheeks flushed as an unfamiliar heat crept up on me.

“Dylan.”

I didn’t know what else to say.

“Everything is moving so fast, Eleanor,” Dylan rasped, his gaze slightly distant, like he was lost in his memories. “I saw a life with you. A future of us together…forever. And I blew it.”

I wished I’d held on to my anger a little longer because now that it was gone, I couldn’t help but remember Micah’s taunts about how he’d been high the night he betrayed me.

So for just one moment, I imagined what it was like to be Dylan.

One minute, he’d been about to be happily mated. Regardless of how everything had turned out in the end, we’d been happy once. That was why his betrayal had cut so deeply.

The next minute, after one mistake and his rather belated apology, he’d ended up mated to Micah, while I was mated to his older brother.

Then his father was on his deathbed, leaving Dylan to assume power in a pack that wanted his older brother to be their alpha instead of him.

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