Don't Ever Think About It

Third POV

"I can't."

Elijah muttered as he sighed slowly, and closed his eyelids tightly. Elijah even bowed his head deeply, and the grip of his hands that had been tight on Lucia slipped right there. Elijah did not dare to look directly at Lucia, who was still influenced by the hybrid soul in her body right now.

"I really can't do that." Elijah muttered again, and shook his head.

"Why? Why can't you do that, Elijah? Don't you want to be able to make Lucia your complete mate? Don't you want to make Lucia let go of all the relationships in her past that have even given her a sense of trauma that will probably be very difficult for her to forget for the rest of her life? Don't you also want Lucia to know that she has a mate?"

Lucia asked quite a few questions at once to the silent Elijah.

"I want to. Of course, I really want to be able to tell Lucia the truth. It's just that I can't do that right now. Not while Lucia is on her revenge mission against Harrison and Felicity. I don't want