#Chapter 181: Two Steps Forward Two Steps Back

Amber’s POV That night, I stayed awake, replaying in my mind the conversation I had with Julian again and again on an eternal loop. I couldn’t stop thinking about the things he said, how it made me feel, and what it might mean for our future. I never imagined I might hear him talk about prioritizing me like that, as he’d always put everything else above me in our past – the pack most of all. Yet here he was, saying that he would even quit if I asked it of him. He had claimed that Alice and I were his whole world. And he said he loved me, with such passion that I could practically still hear the words in his voice ringing around, echoing in my mind. Each time they echoed, my heart stuttered, my whole chest feeling full with the love that he was promising to me. Even with these emotionally fulfilling words, I still struggled to trust him. The past hung over us like a dark stain, a tiny little raincloud, that always came around just as we were starting to be happy. He had hur