12 Chapter 12: Part Revelations

Elizabeth moved around her apartment, gathering what belonged to her in the cases she could place them in. She’d been here so little, she still had only the things she’d brought with.

She had to go back home. Leaving it at all had been a mistake. She should have waited there, like Phillip had asked her. It was a betrayal enough that she had left to become a Healer, but then she should have gone straight home and waited for him.

But she’d wanted to help, and to belong to a pack.

Elizabeth shook her head, but she knew the right thing to do now was to go home. Nothing else mattered other than that.

She heard a knock on her door, went to answer, and found James standing there.

The Alpha strode into her room without concern.

“Elizabeth, I need your help,” James said, then glanced at the state of her house, at the things packed haphazardly. Clothes and her med bag already stashed at the door. He looked at her confused. “What are you doing?”