Redsand Canyon Your kisses are poison and all your words are treason

A better mom would stay and would choose him over herself. She wasn't nearly heartless enough to ignore the way he asked, and her heart broke all over again that she'd been the one to cause this. But she still couldn't. This didn't change that.

She did stop and turn, looking for him. Trying to find a way to hug him fiercely, not only to hide the tears that were threatening.

I can't. It isn't you. If I could stay with you I would, but I need some time. She couldn't run into Bronco again. And she couldn't live here, with all these wolves and all of these rules, feeling like a ticking time bomb.