BOUND BY FATE, TORN BY CHOICES
"My body might want you, but it can never have you. We can never mate.”
Then, with a voice like steel, he said the words that broke me: "I, Derek Blackthorn, reject you, Ava Silverclaw, as my mate.”
The pain was a dagger to my heart, but I swallowed my tears, refusing to let him see me break. Summoning all my courage, I looked him in the eye and said, "I, Ava Silverclaw, reject you, Derek Blackthorn, as my mate.”
Shock flashed across his face. He hadn’t expected me to reject him, not without prompting.
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