Bonds Broken, Love Forgotten

ere the perfect mate

dirt poor, scraping by on part-time

divorced whe

shield me from the

s seared in

trip, her heels clicking rhythmically on

eath catching as the unmistakable soun

n... she

s of his secretary-her perfume sickly sweet, mingli

eets-the ones my mother had slept in for over a

heart breaking in real-time. She didn't s

shared-threads that had once been strong enough to t

ies, my mother quietly arranged the dissolution of everything he thought

no longer

harp enough to cut through the thick

shadows, as my father le

, sil

y mother

irit torn from her. Her knees hit the flo

ing, arms clinging to herself a

-breaking mate bonds was as p

ar, I wa

thought I

as clear to me as t

my mother, ever str

econd year of college, the

of life, began to fade. Her wolf g

always lost in the weig

pped into the street, unaware of the oncomi

ever w

d, I was left alone

o the year

hs at a student

commanding, with a presence

han once. And those brief moments of eye

on, he pursued

my side in class, offering help with assignments, his dark ey

st, I'd built wal

his mate, I rejected him

your mate.

the hint and give up, after all, tha

he di

, and even after I started my inter

feel a little touch

he was to me, the l

y father had treated m