Cherished and Chased Away
I offered her everything I had, begged her to break the mate bond by force, and to transfer all the pain of it onto me alone.
She glanced at me with a heavy and unreadable gaze before saying yes.
When the mate bond broke, I felt the mind-link between Carl and me fray, then vanish altogether. In a single breath, pain tore through my chest, burning outward until it consumed every part of me.
Then, everything went black.
…
Exhausted and hollowed out, I gathered every gift Carl had ever given me, along with that diary, and left them out in plain sight at the castle.
I might've once been the Borderlands' Rogue, but half-hearted gifts like those belonged with him, not me. As for anything that was
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