Chapter 9 - 9: A prisoner for my mate...

Lyla

I stumbled out of the garden. My heart was still heavy from the crushing rejection from my mate.

Although he didn't reject me, he made it clear of the position I held in his life. I'd wanted to believe, for the tiniest moment, that his touch had meant more… The way he had looked at me with eyes filled with love as he sank his teeth into my neck still played in my mind, but his cold dismissal after everything shattered my hopes.

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