Chapter 11
eleven
HUDSON
It wasn’t difficult for me to accept that bears didn’t have to be commitment adverse like I’d been taught to believe.
Deep down, I’d known for more than a decade that I was never going to change my mind about Callie or leave her. I’d let her leave me, but walking away from her had always been unfathomable.
If anything, learning that what I’d been taught was bullshit made me feel like I wasn’t a phony.
But hearing that my mom had given my dad another chance, after I’d watched her struggle to raise me because of his absence…
That would take time.
More time than I had, if they were already engaged.
That was the shit I had to work through, as I barreled through the forest in my fur.
After a while, I missed Callie too much to stay in the forest alone. So, I headed back home.
Back to her.
Back where I belonged.