Mia's POV I sat down on the bench that was on the end of Shawn's bed. It's like i couldn't wrap my head around what just happened. The more i sat there and thought about it, the more angrier i got. I ended up laughing to myself in my own stupidity. I was that girl. The girl that found herself in an abusive relationship. The one that overlooked all the signs and ignored the feelings she was actually feeling all because she trusted the mate bond. I wanted it to work desperately. Now i was the girl stuck in a relationship that she didn't actually want to be in. The fact that he blamed me for the abuse that HE inflicted on me was seriously out of the playbook of how to abuse your partner. I just wouldn't be that girl that would be weakened and ended up believing it was actually her fault for