Luka
I tried to tell him, but he wasn’t listening. No, I don’t want to be with Declan, I kept trying to say.
“Every time I’m near Declan,” I started to say, and he cut me off. Every time I felt the mate bond with Declan, it was a full-body wave of disgust.
I shuddered when I said Declan’s name. And Caleb shuddered every time I spoke. It made me wish my wolf were awake so I could sever the bond immediately.
No torture could come close to the torture I had now, of having the mate bond with the man I hated most, and being unable to end it.
Before he started the firing squad of questions about me and Declan, I was going to tell him that I had been thinking the entire time about how much I wanted to be with him officially.
“I love it here. I don’t want to leave. I’m so happy here,” I t
