I had to keep my mind off it. The absence in my head was deafening. She had only been fully present for a day, but the silence, wow, the silence felt lonely. She should never have completed the bond. The happiness that had consumed me had slipped out in a confession of love. How f*cking stupid was I ? She'd freaked and flipped her switch. I feel like we were getting somewhere too. While we were on the sheets together, she was so open. I'd been holding back, but it was still the most amazing s****l encounter of my life. Anger and frustration are what led me to this decision. I'd plowed into a situation unprepared and without the proper intel. We'd had word from a scout that Lenus had been spotted within the human realm. Oh, he had, my scout wasn't wrong, but it was also a trap set up by