I blink my eyes open and grimace when I realize my whole body hurts.

I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck. And a train. And then a steamroller.

Every muscle aches and every joint hurts and for a minute I can’t remember what happened.

And I don’t know where I am.

In some kind of office, and I’ve been left lying on a narrow cot.

Just as I sit up, the door opens and Karolina comes in.

In that second, all the memories of the past days come flooding back, and I gasp, my hand flying to my chest.

I feel so empty.

The absence of my mating bond with Aaron is like a black hole inside me.

It’s a void at the very center of my soul that’s never going to

be filled.

“Good, you’re awake.” Karolina is carrying an electrolyte drink, which she brings over and hands to me.

I take it with a murmured thanks, immediately worried about how grim she looks and the general negative vibe she’s giving off.

“Is everything okay?” I ask, but then feel stupid for asking that question.

Of course everything isn’t okay.

I’ve just been forced to reject my mate and break our mating bond, and my husband–the love of my life–is going to be

executed at the next full moon.

“I’m afraid I have some bad news,” Karolina says, crossing her arms and avoiding my gaze.

I squeeze the electrolyte bottle until my knuckles ache,

wanting to escape this room before I have to hear whatever it is that Karolina’s going to tell me.

and whatever this

I ask, my stomach churning.

didn’t survive breaking the mating bond,” Karolina

voice, as if she doesn’t really care, or is uncomfortable about

and done with.

then her words really hit

Didn’t survive.

dead?” I stutter out

expression even more

afraid

strong,” I reply, totally

surviving when we

Alpha’s!” I just can’t wrap my head

most powerful who fall

of grief going through my body, painful and twisting, like I’m feeling the mating

again. “This can’t be happening.”

know,” Karolina continues, as if my

around me right now.

to let you off

with light punishment. You may retain the

in name only. The

Leithrow and Havelock–will

the

in that second, I

existing in a world

alive.

mansion and told them the news,” Karolina says curtly. “Someone will be here shortly to pick you up and take you

wait for me to say anything else, simply

her heel and leaves the room, shutting the door

behind her.

is sit there in frozen,

because that’s going

I can’t cope with Aaron’s death being real.

I just can’t.

how to live when Aaron isn’t by my side.

long I sit

has ceased to have any meaning.

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