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She turns to the door, leaving me kneeling on the floor as she leaves the room.

Staring down at my hands and feeling the tingles racing just under the surface from being able to touch her after so long has a new fire lighting within me.

Prove it.

Oh, I will do more than just that.

I’ll make her see that we are the ones written in the stars, and thatno onewill get in the way of us being together again.

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Raine

My blood is practically boiling as I traipse down the hall, my mind spinning from Aiden’s words.

Even now, I can’t deny the draw I feel to him in his presence, but despite that deep, twisting feeling, I know it isn’t the same as it once was.

Memories flash in my brain of that fateful night. The night this bond snapped into place, the night Aiden first came to me. The night he took me over and over again.

That night, it had all seemed endless, perfect. Like nothing and no one could touch us.

How wrong I’d been.

“Raine...” Delilah’s voice pulls me from my thoughts, and I stop dead in my tracks.

I look up, seeing her familiar face, and the pain comes back. All of it.

I barely open my mouth before she is in front of me, pulling me into her arms.

“Delilah...” I mean to speak solidly, but my voice comes out barely a whisper.

Her arms wrap around me, familiar. Warm.

But I can feel a slight tremor in her touch, almost as if she is afraid. But what would Delilah have to fear at this moment?

I hold her at arm’s length, trying to regain my footing.

I don’t know what I expect her to say. I’m not sure if there is anything she can say, but unlike mine, her voice does not waver when she speaks.

“What did he say?” she asks.

I look at the closed door, knowing on the other side of it lies the man who broke my heart. Who rejected me and his baby because he didn’tbelieveme.

Then I look at Delilah, anger and confusion mixing in my gut.But he believed her.

“He said he wants to claim my child.” My words are heavy in the air.

“That’s what you wanted,” Delilah says, chewing her bottom lip. “It’s what you’ve wanted all along.”

She isn’t wrong—as she says the words, I feel the weight of that truth in my heart.

Ididwant him. The night our bond snapped into place, and all those nights after, I wanted him to choose me because I had already chosen him. I chose him the moment I laid eyes on him—before I even knew who he was.

When I lay in that cage, I thought of Aiden. The hope that he would accept us kept me from going crazy in the darkness. Deep down in our bond, I believed fate would not have led me to him if it wasn’t meant to be.

Even after Aiden had rejected our bond and the fruits of it, I still hoped. But somewhere along the journey from Andromeda to the Southern Kingdom, things changed.

I changed.

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