11: WAITING
TRISTAN
As I watched Selene being led away, my heart felt like it was being ripped from my chest. After turning twenty eight without finding a mate, I had long resigned myself to a life without ever feeling the mate bond.
And now, after just a few hours of being granted my deepest wish, she was being ripoed away from me.
"Please, goddess, let her survive this. Let her return to me.” My mind raced with prayers.
A hand on my shoulder pulled me away from my thoughts, and I turned to see Tibet staring at me with worry in his eyes.
"Tristan, are you certain this is the right thing to do? You're not thinking clearly, jusy rushing in head first like you always do.”
My jaw tensed. "You really believe she would risk herself like this? That she would agree to a trial by the Godd
