Arabella POV
It had been two months since we made the decision, and I still struggled with it. Imagining Austin as anything other than the King of Hell seemed so foreign. I knew why we made the decision, but I could only hope he, too, was making this choice without regret. He had changed since we completed the mating ritual. I felt the shifts through the mate bond that bound us together. It wasn’t a subtraction but more of an expansion. Having a mate had grown him. He now saw things a little softer. Those dangerous tendencies that drew me in were still there, of course. Anyone would be a fool to think otherwise.
I never thought I could love something or someone as much as I love Austin, but from the moment I knew this life was inside of me, that love multiplied and extended to her. I kne
