Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Chapter 525

But why would it matter?” I cried. “She had so many other ways to help, she didn’t have to do this.” I shook my head. I just didn’t understand.

Greyson looked up at me with a sad smile. “You know what I heard for the last four years? Every day when Cass was struggling, she would always say that she wanted to be more like you. ‘I have to be like Amy‘.” He shook his head. “I tried to explain that she didn’t have to be like you because I loved her as she was, but she kept saying that she had to be like you because she wanted to be someone that she could look up to. Someone that our pups would look up to and the only person that she ever looked up to you was you.”

Rowan clutched me tighter to his chest as he felt my body trembling against his. “No.” I fought back against Greyson’s words. ” I’m not someone to look up to.”

“Come on, Amy. You’re an alpha, you’re an amazing person and have always stuck up for Cass. She absolutely loves you. You’re her best friend. Of course she wanted to be like you. You risk it all for the people you love, right?” I nearly dropped to my knees, but Rowan caught me. Greyson looked at me. “I don’t blame you. I swear to the goddess that I don’t. I know my mate made her own choices and I know that if this happened, it’s the goddess’s path. I’m just devastated that my pup is gone and my mate is in this bed. I know that I have to go out and still fight to keep our home safe.” Greyson stood and he looked at the doctor. “Is she stable?”

The doctor looked down at Cass and sighed. “She’s showing no signs of fading, so she stable for now. I’m going to monitor her for the rest of the day to ensure she makes it.”

“What are you thinking? What are you going to do?” I stepped out of Rowan’s arms. Greyson looked back at me and I could see the anger, the hatred burning behind his eyes.

“I’m going to go kill the person who hurt my mate. I’m going to kill the person who killed my pup.” Another tear trembled at the edge of his lashes.

A weak voice

you just say?” Greyson rushed to the bedside again, dropping to his knees beside it, and slid his hand into hers. “Baby, are

there, like she was standing on the edge of a cliff, and whatever

her or push her over the

s would either

swallowed as he looked down at their clutched hands. He shook his

pull away but Greyson held on strongly. “No.” She fought against his hold, but he still held her. He pushed up from his knees and crawled into the bed, wrapping his arms completely around her body. “No.” The word sounded more like she was choking than an actual thought. “NO!”

bed, and I reached for my friend, but she pulled away. I looked her in the eyes and I tried to tell her how sorry I was. “Cass.” I tried, but

That one word was a whisper that I barely

I asked as my hands dropped into my

past losing your pup?” Her eyes met

reeled back

the desolation in her eyes that sucked me in. “I don’t see how you could get past it. My