(Damien's Pov) Closer

When she started panicking about me being the Alpha King, and her becoming the Luna Queen, she started begging me to reject her. I was furious, I had waited thirty-two years for her, and I wasn’t going to reject her. Then Nanny mind-linked me that she was broken, and she thinks she had never been loved, I broke right there, I knew I had to hold her. Hunter howled in my head for our broken mate, what things did she go through to make her this broken? I stayed with her all day while she cried, and refused to eat. That’s all she did, I could feel how she battled with herself, giving in to the mate bond, relaxing in my arms, but when she got too comfortable I could feel a shift and she’d start to cry again. I could do nothing but hold her, I knew she needed it. When she finally fell asleep that night, I kissed her cheek and promised that no one would ever hurt her again, I stayed with her I couldn’t bring myself, to not be here, if she needed me again in the middle of the night or think I