I wonder how she’s coping? What do they have her doing over there? Are they treating alright? Is she better off for being without our mating bond? What is that bastard going to do with her? Surely, he’ll be wanting to use her! I don’t trust him. How could she?
These thoughts played on repeat in Apollo’s mind since leaving that meeting. He could think of no one or nothing else but what transpired between him and Royce Caulder.
“She never said that she did trust him,” Maxim said.
It was when Maxim said this that the words that she had said that night in the forest played back over in Apollo’s mind.
“Even if it does get worse…at least it won’t be my own people shoving another knife in my back.”
It had been three days since the severing of their bond, and while the pain had become some
