---- including her family and her friends, to follow me to my pack. I'll never stop loving her. As long as none of you say anything, she'll never find out what we talked about today." The very next moment, my phone buzzed. I looked down at Ethan's message, and it felt like a dagger had pierced my heart. (Maddie, I miss you so much. Being this far away for work is killing me. I'm going to try my best to make it home for our anniversary. I love you.] My vision blurred as tears dripped onto the screen. Ethan loved me passionately. Everyone in the pack knew how much I meant to him. Once, I went out without my phone and didn't contact him for two hours. He panicked and mobilized the entire pack to look for me. When he found me, he hugged me with trembling arms. "Maddie, don't ever leave like that again. Do you know how scared I was that something might ---- happen to you?" To give him peace of mind, I'd kept my phone on me at all times. I was always ready to answer his calls. My phone buzzed again. He was calling again probably because I hadn't responded. But at that moment, I didn't have the heart to pick up. Inside the room, Ethan's expression changed immediately. He gripped his phone tightly, calling again and again. His friends tried to calm him. "Relax, maybe Madeline's just busy and didn't see the message." "You're overthinking it. Missing one call is totally normal." Ethan snapped, "You don't get it! Maddie would never ignore my call! This isn't normal!" He started pacing the room, dialing over and over. ---- I stared blankly at the man who was panicking over me, but my heart ached. I still couldn't believe it. How could someone who loved me this much betray me?