Bonded to Alpha Darius
"I think, when I make decisions now, I will still be making them the way we would have made them together, because that way of making decisions is now simply how I think. She is not gone from that. She is in it, permanently, the way the bond made her permanently part of everything about me."
Marco felt something move through him, the particular feeling of understanding something his father had just articulated for the first time, something that had clearly been forming, unspoken, since the morning.
"That is what the bond does," Marco said slowly. "Not just connect two people while they are both alive. It changes you, permanently, into someone who carries the other person, even after."
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