JADE
So I’m unforgettable but temporal?
I did not think it would be this bad, but I know I’m desperately trying to fill the void losing two children and my small family left.
It’s unhealthy, but I can’t deny that craving Lukas’s warmth also secretly stems from my need to not be alone.
The matebond already demands that I desire nothing but him. But loneliness is an even greater threat.
My reality is that he doesn’t want me. This isn’t my home. Home is thousands of miles away. Sebastian abandoned me for my sister. My parents lied about my birth. And now, I’m at the verge of death.
Lukas takes me unawares with the hand cradling the side of my face. “I know that look,” he says, his black gaze as deep as the ocean’s depths.
“What, look?”
“The one where you hold your problems up on a p
