Third Person's POV
Thinking about the enormous amount of money, Seraphina said casually, "For that kind of money, I'd say we're more than even."
Mortimer let out a soft chuckle. "Sera, I've realized you're actually pretty funny sometimes."
Seraphina rolled her eyes, speechless. She'd just learned to let things go.
Back then, she trapped herself in a cage of her own making, constantly agonizing over why Mortimer didn't love her. It had done nothing but bleed her dry of all her energy.
Their relationship had begun with a contract she had willingly signed. She couldn't blame him for that.
Even when she received his message while trapped beneath the avalanche, she didn't hate him. She simply stopped loving him—stopped clinging to a mating bond that had only ever bound one of them.
She'd
