Chapter 66
Chapter 66
Nolan POV
“Nolan, we need to talk. It’s important p>
Felicity very rarely sounded serious. When she told me somthing was important, there was usually a whine in her voice that let me know she was being dramatic-but that was lacking now. I turned my full attention to her.
“What’s wrong p>
“I’ve been putting a lot of thought into it and come to a very difficult decision,” she said seriously.
Something about her tone made my heart stutter.
“What are you talking about p>
“I’m leaving the pack p>
I stared at her, my mouth hanging open as I searched for the words to respond, but nothing came to me.
“You’re leaving?” I parroted back.
“Only temporarily,” she hastened to add. “Oh God, I made that sound so much worse than it is. I’m going to temporarily move out of the pack lands p>
“Why would you do that?” I demanded, standing from my desk and walking toward her.
“For you,” she responded, as if it were obvious. “The rumors about us are getting out of control, and I know how badly you want to maintain your reputation right now. I understand how important it is. So I thought it would be best for me to leave, in light of the way people are talking p>
“People are talking because of the way you’ve been behaving—and your little TV stunt p>
“I know, I know,” she interrupted. “I made things so much worse, and that’s why it’s on me to fix it. So I’m going to temporarily move out. That way, when everything plays out with Ellie and you go through the divorce, no one will be able to point at me and say that I’m manipulating you or causing it. Then, when Ellie is gone, I can move back and we can start our new life p>
I reached for her instinctively, putting my hands on her waist, and Felicity stepped into my embrace. My heart was racing far more than I wanted to admit, and I knew she could feel it.
This felt like a monumental blow.
Felicity had been by my side since we were kids. She’d been with me through the worst parts of my life, and the idea of being away from her hit me hard, even if it was only temporary.
Felicity leaned against my chest, sighing softly.
“I know this is going to be hard,” she said, “but I’ve put a lot of thought into this, and
I think it’s the best thing I can do to help. I know I caused a lot of damage with my
behavior, and I feel terrible. But it’s just so hard for me to control myself around Ellie.
I get so angry and jealous that he’s taking my place at your side p>
“Where are you going?” I asked.
“I’ll be staying with the Pine Ridge pack,” she answered softly.
“You’re staying with Kieran’s pack?” I said in disbelief. “Are you insane? Of all the options you have, why would you choose Pine Ridge p>
The growl in my voice was barely contained. The idea of that bastard being anywhere near Felicity filled me with
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rage. It was bad enough he wouldn’t keep his hands off of le
“Because it’s the closest, for one thing,” she said with a slight huff, pulling back to look up at my face, “But mainly it’s because my cousin lives there, and she’s offered me a place to stay p>
“I don’t like it,” I replied. “I don’t like the idea of you bein
“Nothing to worry about, Nolan. Unlike Ellie, I’m not sway fingertips across my jaw. in his territory p>
by his false charms,” Felicity replied, tracing her
“I hate this,” I admitted reluctantly, “but I understand you logic, and I think you might be right. It will help protect you from the fallout of the divorce if there’s some distance between us in the meantime. But are you sure that you’ll be all right there p>
I hated to accept this arrangement, but I couldn’t argue against it logically. Besides, Felicity was right. She had caused a lot of problems for me lately.
The fact that she recognized that and was proactive about trying to help showed a level of maturity that I wasn’t used to seeing from her. Maybe she truly intended to take her role as Luna seriously.
“I can endure anything if it means that we get to be together,” Felicity answered.
“It’s noble of you to do this for me p>
“For us,” she corrected. “I’m doing this for us-to secure or future together.” Third Person POV
“Why the hell are you wasting my time like this?” Nolan growled, tightening his arm around Felicity’s waist.
The two of them were walking through the courtyard, discussing the plans for Felicity’s departure in a couple of days, when a Beta had come to interrupt.
“I’m sorry. You asked us to keep an eye on Ellie and let you know if anything strange was happening,” the Beta explained nervously. “I thought that you would want to know that she and Cassian p>
“I don’t give a damn about that. Not right now. Don’t interrupt me again,” Nolan said coldly, the look in his eyes sending a shiver through the Beta.
Felicity smiled, satisfied, as the Beta hurried away, leaving Nolan and her alone once again.
The shift in Nolan’s mood after she made her announcement about leaving was exactly what she was hoping to see from him. He had been getting too close to Ellie, acting oo concerned about her. Felicity couldn’t stand to see him so focused on her.
It disgusted her. But now, knowing that Felicity was leaving in just a couple of days, he hadn’t left her side.
She had all of his attention, which was exactly how she felt it always should have been. Nolan was hers-her love and her future mate. It was always meant to be that way since they were kids.
The only reason Ellie was even given a chance was because of the mate pull and the pressure Nolan was facing from the elders to follow tradition and produce a strong he. But Ellie couldn’t give him that.
In Felicity’s opinion, it just went to show that all of those ridiculous traditions and superstitions about the goddess choosing fated mates were just a bunch of hocus-
ocus.
Nolan and she found each other not because of some ridiculous pheromone reaction, but because they were right for each other. That’s the way it should always be, which is exactly why she was going to get rid of Ellie.
She had already arranged it all. It was tricky, and she’d had call in favors from some disreputable people, but it
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