My laugh was bitter and hollow, echoing in the silence. He had ignored my call. The last desperate plea for help from the woman he had promised to cherish. Instead, he stayed here, comforting her..
"Klaus," I thought, my voice breaking in the void, "If you knew this was the last call I'd ever make to you, would you have answered? Would you have regretted missing it?"
I doubted it.
For five years, Klaus and I had danced around each other, tangled in a relationship that felt both fated and doomed. When we finally got engaged, I thought it meant something. That we had found our way back to each other after all the challenges.
But I was wrong.
Everything changed after the war between the Snowfall Pack and the rival pack. That was when I first noticed it. He wasn't the same after the fighting ended, after we discovered the witch's curse. The witch had been on the enemy's side, and during the battle, she had caged Klaus's wolf. He could no longer feel the mate bond.
And without that bond, it was as if he'd never loved me at all.
Claudette returned soon after. She had left our pack to chase after another Alpha, but that had fallen through. And now, she was back. Back in Klaus's life.