I dropped his hand like it had burned me, tears pricking my eyes as I looked at him, begging him to deny what I had just seen.
His lips were pursed, the tension thickening as I swallowed hard against the block in my throat. My heart added to the ache in my body, hurt clutching my chest.
“Congratulations,” I whispered, my voice dead as I tried to be happy that he had either met or was going to meet his soulmate.
Someone who could give him all the things I couldn’t as a human.
“I’m not going to let it happen, Lorelai,” Kai bit, anger filling us both thanks to the link.
“You can’t stop it, Kai, it’s already been decided,” I cried, the tears spilling, the pain becoming more unbearable.
The idea that he would be with someone else, touch someone else, or love someone else the way he
