Chapter 117 I don't want to become your burden

　　Archie's POV

　　I was carried away from Blood Dawn by my wolf, blood oozing from my wounds. Yet, the physical pain couldn't compare to the agony in my heart. My heart was dead; how could my body still feel?

　　Alisha's determined face as she stabbed me haunted me. The piercing coldness seeped through every pore when I recalled that moment. She was willing to kill me for another man—her husband, as she emphasized. Husband, a title I once scoffed at, now tore me apart.

　　My wolf seemed distraught too, incessantly muttering and complaining in my mind. "What have you done this time?" "I angered my beloved because of you!" "Oh, I faked a move to save you just now, she must be furious!" "How should I apologize to her?" "Maybe I acted too fiercely just. I should try gentler methods." "Oh, what if she..."