ultimate form

you loved and trusted the most

it and that betrayal ca

anted to reject me-for a woma

stening to him speak. I heard the wo

ouldn't understand what he was sayi

o mark you as my mate when we get married, but that was before I met Seraphina yesterday. She's my real mate, and

wn my cheek. I took a sharp, ragged breath-my chest t

d found

here, in his arms, a

lly come-the day I would be cast as

I knew this day would

ust him, to trust his words and believe in hi

if he found his mate, he would still

im to break that promise, to destroy

almost

eyes flickering to the beautiful red-haired woman in his arms. Her gaze was f

told me everything. She was enjoy

, my eyes dropped to her ne

felt my heart shatter

the night with her and

toward me, his hands reaching for mine, his

but you know rejecting my mate w

th a bitter chuckle, repeating the words he had always told me

than some mystical bond. I would never leave you. I want us to be tog

every memory clawing at my ch

spered now, my voice trembling as sobs began t

ered, but I yanked my

e loved now burned me.

verything you said to me for four years, Kael!"

ery word you ever said to me just to s

kept slamming into his chest, b

n guilt as he let me hit

every time? Why did you make me trust you when

ound as I broke into harder sobs, the

he do t

father... after what

only person tru

d n

even bring mys

s the wo

t even m

just.

h-pitched female voice chimed in, follo

now? You understand how strong the mate bond is, right? When Kael and I met, w

d, then ad

you wouldn't really underst

at her through the tears, m

y friend before my life came crashing down that day. Before

after he and the Alpha went to war against the rog

didn't re

ned as corp

r tried to take her own life that same day u

by a thread, with none of the hospitals able to help. Since then, I've spent all

ed in. He helped us because our families had always been c

-the deaths, the coma, the heartbr

ay was my eight

olf was suppo

itch doctor I saw... the grief

voice. I never shif

scoffed, her tone laced with mockery. "Even when he's the Beta of the most powerful

hand, shaking his head sligh

Beta to the three Alpha t

lpha's three sons had taken over, and since my father

glaring at him. "Didn't you say you never loved her? That you only pitied he

t me before quickly looking away,

my lips, and I bit my botto

alled her name, but she sc

romised to cut ties with her, and you're going to start

around me as my eyes sna

ing happening... h

ld break

uld be

ldn't stop paying for my

uldn't cure her, it was the only

d... then my moth

raphina in disbeli

on't be able to pay, and she won't survive," he said an

aw the man I had f

had sworn t

elief was s

lared at Kae

, then let's reject each other. And the re

fro

I wasn't the only one stunned, because Ka

t say... child?

smug face, the words le

're pregna

ew what I was going to say, s

e've known each other for a month but Kael didn't want to tell you because he didn'

eezing my eyes shut,

u're lying..." I whi

ng he would deny it. That he

didn't mee

-guilt and shame etc

ed me as I stared a

asn't

etrayed me in the