Chapter Eleven
“I want to run to you. I know that in your arms I will find safety, acceptance, protection, and love. I want to hear my name on your lips. I long to be near you. But I fear I have lost my right to ask for such things. Sometimes the consequences of our actions are just too terrible. They take us past a boundary from which we cannot return.” ~Perizada
Peri bowed her head. Lucian’s words filled every empty place inside her. She let her mate’s warmth invade her. His pain had hit her out of nowhere and sucked the oxygen from her lungs. Once she’d caught her breath, she realized it was the fae bond that had forced them to connect. She’d kept that bond closed to Lucian because of how vulnerable it would make her to him. She’d been a fool to think he wouldn’t one day find out abou
