He pours himself some scotch, barely looking at me as he asks, “Is it what you want?”
“I want the mating pact between Ashton Daniels and I dissolved. I want it dissolved or else—” Or else, what? I’ll leave the pack forever? They can’t force me to stay, but the thought of trying to live in the human world on my own, without my father’s financial support, terrifies me.
“Never resort to ultimatums, Bailey,” he says calmly. “It puts you in a weak position and ends a negotiation.”
“It’s not a negotiation. It’s just…I can’t be with him. The thought of the mating ceremony alone disgusts me.” My face gets hot talking about it in front of him. I quickly add, “And I don’t want to have to live with him and be the mate he wants me to be.”
Tears roll down my cheeks and I swipe them away, but the wo
