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Alpha Soren

Logan could not shake the feeling as I lay on my bed last night, the weight of exhaustion pressing heavily on me. He couldn't shake the conversation I’d had with Beta Will just hours before. The older man had spoken with the calm authority of someone who had seen it all. "Soren," Will had said, "You have to accept the mate bond if you want to heal. Your wolf is getting weaker because you're fighting it. The bond is the only thing strong enough to bring you back."

Now my mind reeled in the few seconds that I had opened my eyes and saw Meg. Accept the mate bond? After all this time, after everything that had happened- I still had to accept it? It felt impossible, yet Will’s words gnawed at me. My wolf was weaker, a shadow of its former self. The truth was undeniable- without Meg, without the bond, he was fading.

I was fading away. And leaving Logan, I had continued on drinking, knowing Will would see to things if need be. He already had to represent me for the last two fun