Chapter 0027
I scoffed at that. Who the hell was I kidding? Fogen the moment I’d died that the mas the perfect candidate for my luna, temporary ne, keeping lara dotat option. Even if we hadn’t slept together befored proponed my plan, our relaxing ma doomed to be closer than I could have ever anticipated.
But I had never thought we’d end up here.
The fact that her pain had affected me so much that I had done the one thing Notes would never do was baffling to me
I hadn’t meant to reveal so much. I had never intended, even if I were to find my real fees mate, to reveal the truth. I sat up, gritting my teeth.
It was dumb and overly sentimental.
Bonding her would have turned my stomach, but it wouldn’t have put me in danger like this either. At this point, I was wondering if it wouldn’t have been easier to just take another route to establish Shelter than the one I had chosen.
Contrary to Violet’s thoughts, I did have other options. Most of them involved a coup of
some sort.
I sighed, shaking my head. It was done already, and until this thing with Lucas was squared away, there was no getting out of it.
The real problem was that I wasn’t even sure that I wanted to get out of it.
This was exactly why I never slept with a woman twice and didn’t bother to get to know them more than what it took to make them come.
It was easier and safer that way. My fated mate was supposed to be the only exception to that rule and even she was not going to be an exception to every rule.
What the hell had Violet done to me?
A noise broke my thoughts, a crash from next door. I got out of bed, cursing. She’d probably woken up and had been too proud to ask for help. I opened the door and found her exactly where I thought she would be: on the floor, her skin ashen, clutching the sheets around her and still weak from earlier.
I could feel the lingering ache from the fall and the episode rushing through her. For a moment, my heart started to race and in her place was my mother, lying beside her bed growing colder, her life ebbing aya.
J clenched my hand, digging my nails into my palm and crossed the room.
That wasn’t a worry any longer. Not for Violet, at least.
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“You should have called,” I whispered, reaching her and crouching down. “The bathroom?”
“Water,” she croaked. I scoffed, wondering how she expected to get all the way to the kitchen in her state.
I put her back in bed. “Stay here. ”
I went to my room, grabbed the clean glass and pitcher I kept by my bed and cast a cooling spell on it before pouring her a glass.
I sat beside her in bed and helped her sit up to drink. She drank slowly, but as I held her, I felt more and more certain that I had done the right thing, and whether I like it or not, she was no longer just a business partner anymore.
Our fates were entwined forever now.
I could feel the magic I’d cast on her surging with my presence, stabilizing her more because I was so near. It mimicked a mating bond in every way, so I wasn’t surprised when I felt her mind start to ease.
What was surprising was this other, reaching and desperately hopeful feeling coming from her. Something inside me stirred in response, almost as if I was reaching back. It was weak, almost unnoticeable, but enough to make me pause.
How likely was it that Violet… could be my fated mate? Lucas wasn’t a strong enough werewolf, even without my magic, to have enough of a hold on her to suppress it, but her bond with Lucas was only half broken, and had seven years of being fed by their
relationship. Her grief and instincts were still protecting what was left of it, but that would
end soon.
I pressed a kiss to her cheek. It was time to start the lawsuit and cut him out of her life for good.
“What’s the name of Lucas‘ lawyer?”
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