Chapter 106 A Goodbye Without Goodbyes

• I wring out the cloth and press it gently to Jasmine’s forehead, the steam curling upward like tiny ghosts in the dim light. Her skin burns beneath my touch, damp from the heat. She’s curled up on the bed, her breaths uneven, strands of hair plastered to her face. She looks so small—too small for someone who once had the strength of a wolf in her veins.
• Losing her wolf… It’s been destroying her piece by piece. I can see it—the weakness, the way her bones seem sharper under her skin. And every time I look at her, I remember what black magic stole from her, all because she was desperate to free herself from a toxic mate forever.
• Maybe I’d hoped—selfishly—that Fury might return her feelings too. That maybe, just maybe, his love would be enough to bring her wolf back, but fate doesn’t care about hope. And now he’s wrapped around his second-chance mate, Nora—a breathtaking beauty, the kind that draws stares without effort. She’s nothing like Lady Celestia, his disastrous first mate. Nora is warm and soft-spoken, and she treated his father like her own family.