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CHAPTER EIGHT
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“I didn’t initiate that this time…. That’s the confirmation that none of us will be able to stay away from this bond”, he said and walked away slowly but then he stopped again and turned back like he wanted to say something but I spoke even before he opened his mouth to say anything. “My body reacted before my mind did and we both know it’s because of the bond”, I said hurriedly. “This meant nothing”, I concluded, still avoiding his gaze. “Do you still think the mate bond is something you can run away from? He paused. “You don’t have a choice here”, he muttered. I didn’t say anything and he didn’t even say anything either. We both stood there staring at each other like we were deciding which version of truth we wanted to say. “I will do all I can to make you understand that any of this is not what can be controlled. We don’t have a choice here, we have to do what the moon goddess wants”, he concluded. “No”, I said when I finally found my voice. “There’s a way to go about this”, I p
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“Hmmm”, I moaned as the light ray from the sun slipped in through the window and hit my face brutally. I squeezed my face as I stood up and stretched lazily. “Oh my God! What time is it ?”, I screamed as I spranged up picking up my phone from the bedstand hurriedly. “Shit”, I muttered when I remembered I lost my job the day before and I’m now living with my mother’s husband and my supposed mate. Fuck Mr Gerald. I moved away from the bedstand and on my way to the bathroom to have my mouth rinsed, the same pain I had felt the day before came back and it felt like my heart was getting ripped out of my chest that moment. I grabbed my chest and held the chair in the room for immediate support so that I won’t fall. Before I opened my eyes earlier, I felt him and I knew he was awake already. Even though I haven’t set my eyes on him at all, I could still feel him like he was in the room with me and that made me tense. I continued my walk to the bathroom regardless and at that moment, I ma
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I should not have had that feeling when Damien kissed me in the kitchen earlier but I guess I have no control over it. I came back from the kitchen a few minutes ago and I have been pacing around my room since then as the scene kept replaying in my head uninvited and somehow unavoidable. I needed to calm myself down “Arrggghh! I screamed as I bounced on the queen sized bed in the room holding my head tightly and squeezing my face like I could perceive a very offensive and disgusting odour. “This is not right”, I muttered. “It doesn’t make sense that the moon goddess activated a mate bond with someone that can easily pass as the person I hate most in this city”. As I laid on the bed, staring at the well decorated ceiling, I traced my hands on the faint but still present scars on my wrist as the painful memories of when I was subjected to Damien’s bullying and maltreatment rushed through my head. “You don’t deserve to be in the same space as I am. You worthless human being”. That wa
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I could not stop crying.That was the part that humiliated me most — not the firing, not the twenty-four hour deadline, not the image of Gerald Watts' cold, satisfied expression as I walked out of his office. It was the crying. I had spent years training myself out of it, years teaching myself that tears were something you saved for the truly private moments, and here I was, sitting on Priya's bed with my knees pulled to my chest and my face completely falling apart while she rubbed circles on my back and said nothing because there was nothing to say.Eventually she handed me a tissue and I pressed it against my eyes and breathed."We will figure this out," she said quietly. "I promise you, Nora — we will figure it out.""How?" I pulled the tissue away and looked at her, and I knew my face was a mess and I could not bring myself to care. "I have no savings, Priya. Every spare cent I have made for the past three years has gone toward paying off the debt I accumulated getting through sc
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He did not move from the spot where I had left him.I had taken maybe ten steps toward the gate when his voice reached me again, and something in the steadiness of it made my feet slow before my brain had given them permission to."I have no interest in hurting you again, Nora." He was not calling after me — his voice was measured and quiet, as though he was simply finishing a thought. "I want you to know that. Whatever you believe about me, that part is true."I stopped but I did not turn around."Today is not about me," he continued. "And it is not about the bond, or the academy, or any of the history sitting between us. Today is about your mother." A pause. "She has been preparing for your visit since yesterday morning. I watched her. She rearranged the flowers on the dining table three times because she could not decide which arrangement looked more welcoming. She changed the menu twice because she wanted to make sure she cooked something you liked." Another pause, quieter this ti
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I could not move.I stood in the middle of my mother's living room with my feet rooted to the floor and my mind completely blank, staring at Damien Hale standing at the bottom of the staircase as though the universe had not already exhausted its entire quota of cruelty on me before noon.He looked just as frozen as I felt. Just for a second. Just long enough for me to know that he had not known either — that whatever this was, it had blindsided us both in equal measure.My mother stepped forward with a warm, oblivious smile, gesturing between us with the easy confidence of a woman who believed she was about to do something lovely."Nora, this is Damien — my stepson." She rested her hand briefly on my arm. "And Damien, this is my daughter. I have told you so much about her."The silence that followed that introduction was the loudest I had ever stood inside.Damien said nothing. I said nothing. My mother looked between us with the beginning of a small, uncertain frown forming at the ed
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