Gods. It would be a wonder if Amber did up and leave again, taking Alice with her.

    I’d only left a quick message on the card for the flowers. There was too much to say that couldn’t be properly conveyed on paper. Amber and I needed to sit down for a face to face so that I could properly

    clear the air.

    That couldn’t happen if Amber jumped to conclusions. Or if she ran.

    Maybe she wasn’t going to run away. Maybe it was just my own worries ying tricks on me. But she’d disappeared on me twice before, once almost dying in the process.

    I couldn’t stand to have to chase her again. And what if something happened this third time that she didn’te back from?

    The fear sat in my stomach like a lead weight. I remembered what it felt like to hear the news about the ne crash, to know that this part of my life had been ripped away. There could be no cheating death, no fixing mistakes that were so far out of reach.

    I wasn’t going to let that happen again.

    Amber and I needed to talk.

    But first, I unfortunately had to deal with Olivia. If she was allowed to stay here, she’d only cause more problems, but with the way she flopped down on the edge of the bed in her hotel room, it was clear she

    wasn’t going to be packing up her things anytime soon.

    “I just got here,” she said. “I should at least stay the night.”

    “I’ll pay for the hotel,” I said. “They will still get their money. But you are going to the airport right now.”

    “I don’t care about the hotel,” she said. “I want to see the town. I was already on a flight this morning. Who wants to take two nes in one day? Or deal with all those airports? You are being unreasonable.”

    I had thought I had convinced her to return to Thorn pack, but ever since she saw that text from Alice,

    something shifted in her mood. She’d dropped the subject almost instantly, and became somewhat brighter. My threats even stopped working, she justughed them off.

    “I’m just following your lead, darling. You see something in this town, and I want to see it to. Something tells me there’s more than just your ex keeping you here.”

    bI /bstraightened. She was talking about Alice. “That’s none of your business.”

    She shrugged like it didn’t matter, but I could tell she was nning something.

    “You will leave Amber alone,” I said.

    “And Alice?”

    I narrowed my eyes. “Her too.” The words came out a bit more forcefully than I meant them. Olivia was being a nuisance but I didn’t hate her. We had a shared past and lost a child together. Yet I couldn’t get over the rising suspicion I felt looking at her.

    Maybe the main culprit was my wolf. Despite Olivia being my fated mate, my wolf had grown attached to

    Amber and Alice. So had I.

    The idea of Olivia getting in the way of that…

    “I’ll leave in the morning,” she conceded atst. Perhaps she could sense my anger.

    I didn’t want to argue anymore. “Fine,” I said. “The first flight. But I mean it, Olivia, don’t start any more

    trouble while you are here.”

    “I wouldn’t dream of it,” she said.

    I turned then and marched out of her room.

    With only one person on my mind, I knew where I had to go and what I had to do.

    I had to fix things with Amber.