Chapter Seventy-One

Shannon’s POV

My feet tapped the ground continuously almost like it had a mind of its own as my mind continued to race, willing a mix of random unimportant things to fill it out with, that being the only thing I could do to keep it from venturing into dangerous territory, the memory of that altercation felt like it'd been burned into my thoughts. A memory as fresh as the wound was. It wasn’t going to heal now or soon, I could already feel it in my bones and there was nothing I could do about it.

To someone else, it might not mean much but not to me. Two months spent together with the Mayert triplets who were supposed to be my mates had now gone down the drain. Well, so much for the wolves that I had planned to spend the rest of my life with.

I would not fault myself for wanting to wait until we got married and I didn’t know if that had been one of the reasons Ricky had changed towards me, I wasn't some traditionalist stuck on some boring rules of religion. I grew up sheltered, so I'd a