Pregnant And Rejected Mate
He was quiet for a long moment, his thumb tracing gently over my knuckles.
"Then let me give you more than hope," he said finally. "Let me tell you what I know is true, regardless of what happens with the ritual. I know that whatever happens with that mark, I am not walking away from either of you. I know that even if the worst happens, even if some part of her is bound the way Callum described, I will spend the rest of my life fighting to break that bond free, the same way I'm fighting right now to find the counter-ritual before it sets. That's not hope, Sera. That's a vow."
I looked at him, at the raw sincerity carved into every line of his exhausted face, and felt something in my chest st