Elias POV
It’s been eighteen hours since my love cried herself to sleep. I almost had to have a nurse come in and sedate her, but she finally gave in to the night. I have so many questions running through my mind about the events of yesterday that I need answers to. I want to wake her to satisfy the nagging need to understand and ask her what happened, but I can’t bring myself to force her out of her slumber. At least now she looks like she is at peace, like the pain is dormant. Early this morning I started to feel the mate bond come out of where it was hiding. I don’t understand why the mate bond would ever fade away like it did. I thought that I had lost her. Even now her soul feels so far away - guarded almost. I cannot relate to her pain that she feels, that I now feel through our bo
