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136. I Promise
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2024-10-29 19:42:56~ RIG ~
Was I the reason the bond hadn’t completed?
Did I need to be the one to go first… to let whatever it was come out? Maybe because she was human, that was the only way?
Or maybe humans just couldn’t release whatever this thing was?
I had a gross mental image for a minute from that movie “Aliens.” I shuddered. Fuck, I hoped when it did come that it wouldn’t hurt.
But that was stupid. No one ever talked about the bond hurting. That was the point. Having your mate so close, so connected was the opposite of hurt. Or so I’d been told.
So I thought back on the words Mack had chosen. Chewing them over.
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