Chapter 29

ALINA

I felt nothing.

As I walked away from the pack, the place that was supposed to be my home, my future, all I could think about was how numb I felt. It was like everything inside me had shut down. My mind kept racing through the people who had betrayed me. Alex, Kai, Xavier. Kai again. I couldn’t even muster the strength to shed a tear. I had cried so much before, but now, there was nothing left. I was empty. I thought I had found a chance to be happy here. I thought that maybe, after everything I had been through, I could finally have a place where I belonged. I was such a fool to believe that.

I kept walking, my steps slow and aimless, not caring where I was going. The borders of the pack were dangerous. I knew that when I made the split second decision to leave and when I was packing my bags but as I stepped out, the murders and the threats didn’t seem to matter anymore. What was the point of being careful when everything had already fallen apart? I couldn’t bring myself to ca