Chapter 313


    Chapter 313


    Jackson was numb.


    None of this felt real.


    There was a part of him that had hoped there was some possibility of Taya living, of something


    happening at thest minute to keep her with him after they mated.


    But that wasn’t to be.


    When Eric heard the news of Taya’s death, he immediately rushed over. However, he did not expect to


    see such a scene.


    Jackson had always been aposed Alpha, and the wolf Eric was seeing right now was anything but.


    Eric watched as Jackson paced around his condo in Arcadia in his massive wolf form. He couldn’t


    describe him with words. He only felt that Jackson had gone mad.


    He looked at Jackson’s bloodshot eyes and couldn’t help but feel emotional for his friend. Even in his


    wolf form, the grief Jackson was experiencing wasing off of him in waves.


    “Jackson, pull yourself together… Your pack needs you.”


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    Jackson’s body went limp, and heid on the floor. His desperate amber eyes were empty as he stared


    off into nothing.


    Night fell, and there was a knock on the door. Eric answered it to see one of Jackson’s pack guards


    standing there with an urn.


    “I’ve brought the remains of the Alpha’s mate,” he said, trying to


    look inside to see Jackson.


    Eric shifted his body to keep the man from seeing Jackson in such a state. It wouldn’t do for anyone to


    think there might be a weakness to be exploited, that there might be an opening to challenge the


    Sterling Alpha.


    After taking the ashes, Eric sent the pack guard on his way and


    closed the door.


    Jackson’s blood-red gaze slowly moved to the urn when Eric turned around.


    The second he saw it, he lifted his snout and let out a bloodcurdling, mournful howl.


    When Jackson asked Eric if he could cure Taya’s heart failure, Eric suspected that Jackson had


    regained his memory, so he asked Camille about what had happened back then.


    Only then did he find out about Jackson and Taya’s past. How Jackson’s brother Stephen Sterling had


    behaved in order to keep them apart to protect the Sterling pack.


    Jackson had jumped out of the car for Taya’s sake and lost his memory. The depth of that kind of love


    was not something others could easily measure…


    Eric suddenly thought of Ste lying on the ground covered in blood and reaching out to him for help.


    His heart couldn’t help but tighten.


    If Ste hadn’t held on to it back then, would he have been like Jackson, holding on to her urn and


    utterly ruined?


    He shook the thoughts away.


    Jackson shifted back into his human form and took the urn from


    Eric. His housekeeper, Cora, was shocked when came in and saw Jackson holding an urn, his face


    pale and eyes nk.


    Although Cora didn’t know who was in the urn, she thought it must be one of the Alpha’s rtives.


    “Alpha, I’m going to prepare the mourning hall…”


    Jackson did not respond, but when Cora turned around, he stopped her.


    “I want you to have a tombstone made for her.”


    “What is her name, Alpha?” Cora asked softly.


    Jackson looked down at the urn and replied affectionately, “My mate, Taya Palmer.”