Agonizing seconds passed before the intensity of the stare broke, for his bright blue eyes blinked, and blinked again. And then… water fell from those eyes, tears falling down the side of his. He quickly wipes it away, pretending as though nothing had happened.
“The coast is clear, Alpha.” Jeremy says stiffly, his voice c r a c k i n g.
He can’t leave but he wants to.
His duty was to protect me and he was stuck here.
With us.
I can’t look away from him, sucked into this despair and dread. My mark burned with such blinding pain and intensity that it took me a while to realize that this pain that I was feeling was Jeremy’s. I was feeling his pain through the mark that wasn’t even his.
We were mates.
Fated mates.
And this moment only proved that.
I flinched away, shuddering with s
