Chapter 101

DOMINIC’S POV I’d stormed off like a petulant pup—again. My footsteps had echoed like thunder as I left the field behind, fury boiling just beneath my skin. My wolf didn’t say a word. No growling. No snarling. Just... silence. He’d gone utterly still, like even he was ashamed of me. Maybe he was right to be. I got in my car and drove aimlessly, my hands gripping the wheel so tightly I could feel my bones strain beneath the tension. My jaw ached from clenching. My head throbbed. I didn’t have a destination—just the overwhelming need to move, to escape the way her voice cracked when she told Derek she felt nothing for me. As if those words hadn’t just shattered every last hope I had been clinging to. How did I become this person? The evening air grew colder as I drove along the borders, the wind sneaking through the cracked window and whipping across my face. It didn’t soothe me. Nothing did. Not the stars above me, not the scent of the woods I’d once called home. It all just made the ac