I'm just the homewrecker now

He could hear the pain in her voice and see it on the faces of her companions. This wasn't the outcome he'd expected nor the consequences he had planned to face. Two families. In the same pack. How had he really seen everything come to pass? Tana was going to stay ignorant or even if he'd told her the truth she wouldn't mind sharing? No Shaye didn't expect that either. It was one or the other and he couldn't have both. Rhyme couldn't have everything.

She hadn't turned back around to face him, a sign of how thoroughly she had made up her mind. He couldn't help find his mind wandering to a time when he'd raged about someone hurting her, but now he'd gone and done the same thing. He knew the physical pain was just as real as the emotional he'd poured upon her.

"I never meant to hurt you." He admitted truthfully, he hadn't done any of it with her pain in mind and that was the problem. He'd only thought of himself and not the woman who gave her heart so freely. She didn't even know if he could do anything to convince her to stay.

"I won't come near you again." He started, flinging options off his cuff. "I'll have one of the warriors escort you to one of our allied packs when the spring returns." He couldn't stand the thought of someone finding her and returning her to slavery. He had to assure her safety. And Noir's. "Please don't let me break my second promise too." His voice became quieter and his head lowered as he felt himself humbled.