FABIAN
My heart hammered against my chest as I watched her move away from me. One dance. That's all I'd gotten with Vanessa—one brief moment where I'd felt complete for the first time in years. And I'd ruined it with my arrogance.
The taste of regret was bitter in my mouth. I should have said more, done more. Instead, I'd let her slip through my fingers again.
She was surrounded now, pack leaders and their Lunas circling her like vultures. No—not vultures. They were circling her like she was the prize she'd always been. The prize I'd been too blind to see.
Isaac Bennett approached her with a practiced smile, and my hands clenched into fists at my sides. The Alpha of the Crescent Moon Pack had made no secret of his interest in Vanessa since her arrival. He bent to whisper something in her ear, and a polite smile curved her lips.
My wolf snarled beneath my skin. Mine, he insisted. She's ours.
But she wasn't. Not anymore.
