I watched Roman walk away from my house, my heart racing from his kiss to my cheek. That had been unexpected. The closeness was difficult to fight. I cannot allow that to keep happening. Not if I was not going to let him back in. The mate bond was hard to fight. I did not realise just how hard, I had never felt the pull of it before. Sierra was going crazy in my head for her mate. I was having to fight internally with her to stop that.
I had to protect myself. He had hurt me massively before, so there was nothing to stop him doing that again. Yes, I understand he had been brought up in a lie and was doing what he had been trained and told to do. I can see that, and part of me knows he likely felt he had no choice. I had heard of his father and how ruthless he was. If he was like that as
