Third Person's POV
She hadn't blocked him or deleted his contact.
She just quietly shut him out of her life while he clung to the faintest hope that his amends could repair their mating bond.
She kept everything perfectly civil, yet that emotionless distance cut him deeper than any anger ever could.
Mortimer looked at Seraphina and let out a sudden laugh.
Yet, with his face etched in sorrow and his eyes glistening with tears, he looked heartbreakingly broken.
But Seraphina didn't feel a thing; the blizzard that had once turned her heart to stone left behind only a hollow, immovable chill.
She simply looked at him with a blank expression and muttered, "Happy birthday."
Her voice was flat, devoid of emotion, like an actor reading a script just to get through the scene.
"You promised
