I didn’t like Merethyl saying she couldn’t be my mate. It felt like a rejection, something I’d never experienced in my two centuries of life. No one has ever turned me down. No one has ever said no to me.
When I realize that she’s afraid of abusing the power that claiming me would give her, something inside me settles. She is not rejecting me as her mate. She simply does not want the power that claiming me would give her lest she abuses it.
While I’m surprised, I guess I shouldn’t be. Whatever or whoever in the universe creates mate bonds must do it for a reason. We’re supposed to be two halves of a whole, or two beings that, once connected become whole, or some bullshit like that. Tana spouted about how great it was, but I wasn’t listening. I didn’t believe her, I didn’t understand. Bu
