A NEW CIRCLE

Maybe it would be fair to say that if she hadn't fought him so hard on the issue of belonging to him, then she wouldn't be in this state. Yeah, but that only applied to the first time. After that, she had conceded belonging to him as his mate, although she had snarled at him with every concession. He hadn't had any need to keep it up.

She wondered if maybe the drive behind it had been that he had sensed that her admission was only half-hearted. Once she had belonged to someone and when he had broken up with him, it destabilized her for a while. She locked her heart after Jake in a bit to concentrate. Moreover, it will take more than fucking, mating and branding for Freya to open up her heart to Dante. She hadn't forgotten what he was like in a hurry.

And that was okay because that was not his chunk to take. But she wouldn't give that much of herself to another person again. Her soul wouldn't survive the loss a second time, as there wouldn't be enough of her left to allow her to live.