KadeIt was late, and I couldn’t sleep. The familiar pull of my mate bond with Valeria still tugged at me, even though I knew it was a one-sided ache. She had severed it emotionally, distanced herself, but the connection lingered, refusing to be broken entirely. My mind replayed our last conversation on a loop, every word, every moment. I kept wondering if there was something—anything—I could have said or done differently. Maybe I should have fought harder, said more, begged if that was what it took. But Valeria was headstrong, and once she made up her mind, it was near impossible to change it.She had chosen Aiden. My chest tightened every time I thought of it. She was going to marry him. How could she not see the danger she was walking into? Aiden wasn’t to be trusted, and even if he wasn’t the one pulling the strings, there were darker forces at play. And now, she was aligning herself with him, distancing herself from me, from the mate bond, from everything we could have been.I go
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