His yearning.

Rygan's POV

I never knew that after Alana’s death, someone would make me feel so anxious and yet so obsessed that I had with Alana an innocent love, but I’ve never felt so intense and never wanted someone so much like how I craved Elise, and she was all I could think about.

Since that very day that I took Alvira in my bed, my wolf had fought against me, thrashed my mind, and filled it all with Elise; she was who I wanted.

But it all came crashing down when Alvira announced her pregnancy. I could see the look of betrayal in Elise’s eyes. I knew I was going to lose her, but nothing prepared me for the moment Kaide told me that she was gone that night.

A clouding fear surrounded me and left me wondering if she had left me and left the pack, finally freeing herself from a messed-up old me, ……