It had been two weeks since Charlotte had agreed to go through with the bonding ceremony with Liam, and she still hadn’t quite come to terms with it yet. It wasn’t as if she didn’t want Liam to become her bonded mate, but her mate being forced and blackmailed into bonding with her wasn’t exactly the stuff of romance she’d envisioned when she had thought about her and Liam’s future.
It also didn’t help that she still hadn’t managed to forget that Liam had started his relationship with her while he was in love with Lily. She was starting to wonder if she’d ever get over it because no matter how annoyingly attracted she was to him and how many dates Liam took her on around the city— going to the New England Aquarium, a picnic in Boston Commons, and browsing Faneuil Hall Marketplace to name
