Chapter 294 Ruby

• I see Jake coming through the trees, now covered in a pair of shorts, and carrying something in his arms, hopefully clothes for me. As I really do not fancy walking back down to the pack naked. I already had enough to contend with without that as well.
• ‘Was beginning to think you had disappeared’ I link him.
• He looks up at me and smiles. But I see the usual sparkle in his eyes is not really there now. An emptiness is there in it's place. Though I can understand that. He has just lost his fated mate. That could break some people. He must feel brooken. Though they were not marked or actually mated, so hopefully it would not hurt him as much as it could potentially. What scares me is the fact it was him that killed her. He took the life of his own mate, to protect someone else. Would he be able to forgive himself that? And what made me feel even worse, was that it was for me he had killed her. He killed her to protect me. And while I would be eternally grateful he had saved my life, that I was still here, I am also terrified he would hold it against me that she was no longer here.