MADELINE'S POV

Alpha Konan had been gone for weeks. I hadn't seen him since the day I rudely told him off at the Pack hospital.

Those words had come from a raw place inside me, and once they were out, there was no taking them back. In fact, I didn't want to take them back. I thought they would make me feel better, and make him distance himself away from him, but all it had done was leave a bitter taste in my mouth.

And then, he was nowhere to be found.

At first, I noticed his absence in small ways—empty study, his commanding voice during pack meetings. But as...