Chapter 51: Lost Ones

Maya At night, the flashbacks hit me hard, snatching away any traces of sleep. I sat up after a whole hour of tossing and turning on the bed. At this point, I knew I would have to spend the rest of the night wide awake. It was no longer the same pack, the same room, the same people, but everything in my life still felt eerily familiar. Maximus and Leonardo were haunting presences in my life. Yet, upon rejecting them, a void lingered in my heart, a palpable absence of something precious that I had cast aside. But it wasn’t precious, was it? That mate bond was a curse. God! I hated the fact that my emotions, pain, and restlessness – everything remained stubbornly fucking unchanged, and it irked me to no end. It irked me that severing a bond that only brought pain was affecting me so deeply. They had fucking ruined me, and here I was, shedding tears for them. Why? What had they done to hold such significance for me? They had tortured me, laughed in my face when they deemed it necessary, s