16

ELEANOR

I still hadn't wrapped my head around the situation I'd found myself in when he quite literally pulled me out of my reverie, with his hand around my wrist, he pulled me away from the dishes I'd been doing. I was still very much in a state of confusion, hearing the word ‘mate’ had thrown me so off guard that I felt myself continuously repeating the word in my head.

Mate!? What does he mean when he calls me to mate? He's my mate, but how? How could it have been that I found my mate in such an unfortunate situation and place? I'd never have expected it to be here, a place where mating was forbidden for the slaves. Why did I have to meet him here?

I quickly snapped out of my haze when I felt frantic hands all over my face, moving to my knees and back to my face. I blinked back to coherency, pulling my hand out of his and taking a step back from the panicky man.

“What are you doing?” I asked, confused, and his eyes widened a tiny bit before he responded.

“You went blank all of a su