Time alone to think and let it sink in has done nothing except get me riled and upset, and yes, I’ve cried buckets. I sat in a huddle in the corner for a good twenty minutes and sobbed my heart out, while it felt like it was breaking all over again. Much like when I left Colton and found myself alone without him, and no choice but to keep going. Soon as the doc left, it’s all I could do—for me, my mother, my brother and father, my family, my pack. For the mate, I can never have.

I cried until my nose ran and I couldn’t breathe, and I...