Chapter Sixty-seven
Thalina
The gentle words he spoke, the affection and admiration in his eyes, the deep promises woven into every syllable—he didn’t just make me realize how much he wanted me, how much he missed me. He made me feel it. And that quiet wish for forever at the end? That was what undid me every time I thought about it.
I had always believed that whatever this was between Professor Maverick and me would fade into nothing—a fleeting fling, a temporary indulgence. I thought I was just another woman he wanted for the moment, someone he’d eventually move on from.
But what did he say?
“You’re my woman, Lina. The only one I want. The only one I need.”
Even now, my heart thundered and flipped with uncontainable joy at the memory of those words.
And suddenly, it didn’t matter that I couldn’t feel the mate bond the way others did, didn’t matter that my wolf remained silent when she should have stirred. What mattered was that I knew.
Professor Maverick was my ma
