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"You're doing it again.”
I raised my head, shifting my gaze from whatever I was looking at to look at Paige. “Doing what again?” I wasn’t sure what he meant; perhaps he said something before and I wasn’t listening.
"Pulling away, getting lost in your head.” His tone was careful, almost apprehensive, like he didn’t want to upset me.
He tries not to let it show, but I know Paige still walks on eggshells around me, even though I’ve told him we are fine, that I am fine, and that I have no resentment or anger towards him anymore.
"I am not pulling away, at least not from you. I can’t do that, even if I wanted to. You won’t let me; the mate bond won’t let me either, not since after we completed our mating and merged the seal."
"Does that mean you’ll pull away again if you
