"He is legally required to sever the bond," Morgan adds from behind me, sounding incredibly bored by the history lesson.I swallow hard, my throat aching where the silver burned a shallow line into my skin."Sever the bond?" I ask, my words coming out a bit shakier than I intended."He has to reject you," Sienna clarifies, her eyes lighting up with pure, toxic joy."It isn't a suggestion, Jaslyn. It is a mandate enforced by the royal council."The words hit me like a physical blow, stealing the remaining oxygen from my lungs.A formal rejection.I remember the searing, agonizing pain I felt just from locking my bedroom door and putting a few floors of distance between us.If just standing away from him felt like my chest was being torn open by jagged wire, I cannot even fathom the torture of having the spiritual tether permanently severed.It would probably kill a normal human, and since the poison just flushed out of my system, my waking wolf would feel every single ounce of that ago
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