TEGAN'S P.O.V As the words left his mouth, my body crumbled over in pain. It was all I could feel while everything inside of me was breaking. It felt like a piece of myself was being ripped away. I was losing my mate. Not just my contracted mate, but my fated mate. Not that anyone aside from me knew this news. Ezra couldn't have known, not while having a curse on him, to not recognize the fated mate bond. He was as clueless about me being his fated mate as anyone else in this room was. It didn't make my heart hurt any less. I could feel our bond snapping as I fell to my knees, tearing gushing down my face. Then suddenly I felt nothing as everything around me turned to darkness. I opened my eyes to nothing but blackness surrounding me. Was this death? I got up off the ground as I