Immediately Candice walked out, I sighed with relief and shut my eyes again, feeling the weight of gut and sadness bear down on me. For several hours, I stumbled around the room, trying to remember the person I was before Olivia. Trying to pull out the emotionless, uncaring Alpha that I was before she came into my life. That was the only thing I thought could save me from this feeling of guilt and self pity—to not care anymore. Our life together, Olivia and I, had happened to me, I would not have been able to imagine it even if I had tried, and so, surely, I could return to what was before. But before was a vague, gaping void and I no longer knew who I had been then, what I had enjoyed, disliked, wanted. I was slowly losing my mind.Finally I shuffled over to the chair I'd been sitting on before Candice had disturbed my moping, and collapsed on it with a large sigh. I felt tears beginning to well up in my eyes and, startled at myself, I opened my eyes. The tears did fall; great drop
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