Awakening - Rejected Mate
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The open door between us keeping us a couple of feet apart, but his sadness overwhelms me.
“Eight years of silence… eight years watching her sleep. Eight years hoping that one day the things she said, I’d accept that my friend had lost her mind completely. Eight years…. and I convinced myself that her visions and stories were that of a mad woman, broken by battle which convinced her that her mate was an evil player in some bigger plan, and her confinement here was a betrayal to silence her. Eight years justifying that she was better asleep, than to be tortured by her own illness of the mind.” I don’t know if he’s saying it to me, or to himself, his eyes not on me, just glazed and distant as