Big Salmon Lake [m] My Hearts In Pieces

His single word made her cringe, and her gaze met the ground. A slight tremor went through her, and she spoke after a brief hesitation, not wishing for a tense silence like the one that had just unfolded. In truth, the events were still a little hazy. Why had she done it? That too was a little hazy, it seemed. But she begun anyway, and though her words were garbled, they were sincere. "I...I don't know, Harley. This, this heat, it changes how i feel about things. And I didn't want to...I didn't want to upset Charon. And I felt...it was like..."

But she had no excuse, did she? Sure the heat had filled her with feelings and emotions that didn't seem her own, Charon was her alpha, and she had been so full of emotion she could burst, but she could have done something. The fact was, she didn't, and she didn't feel the amount of regret she thought she out to feel. "Harley, I'm...I'm sorry." She lapsed into silence, sitting in order to stop spreading her scent further and in exhaustion.