ALISTAIR
I recognised the damn brooch at once. It had haunted my every dream since the moment I met the girl who lost it. In my dreams, I wasn’t letting her go. In my dreams, I made her stay, invited her to a restaurant, made her like me, claimed her… In my dreams I was marrying her and not this… arrogant, spoilt brat. But those were dreams…
“And yet you can’t escape destiny, Ter.” My wolf chuckled. I should have ignored him; I should have ignored the brooch… But I just needed to know.
“That’s a beautiful brooch you have there,” I said, and Eiryn flinched at my words, covering the little piece of jewellery at once with her tiny palm.
“I didn’t take you for the kind of man to appreciate such things,” she mumbled. “You can put me down now. I can walk by myself.”
“No, you can’t.” I ignor
