51. Of Past and future

(ARES)

"You- you saved me that night, didn't you?" Elyn's eyes were especially beautiful today and when she looked at me, her eyes wide with wonder and gratefulness and surprise, I wanted to pull her to me and make her mine. Only mine. To mark her so that nobody would ever claim that she was theirs.

"I did, and you saved me that night, too. That was the night I decided to stop drinking and start being an Alpha," I whispered as I looked into her eyes. I hadn't remembered her face back then, but now I knew I would never forget it ever again.

She said something to me that night, which made me wanted to be a better man. Kai helped, too, but Kai had been saying the same thing repeatedly for weeks, but my pain was just too much, my anger uncontainable to think about anything else.

She told me that I was a good man, and that I would be a perfect Alpha when I drunkenly complained to her about something. I didn't remember half of it, but I remembered that.

"I did?" she whispered as she l