Axel
I stood frozen in the hallway long after Queen Melody had left, her words lingering in my mind like an echo I couldn’t silence.
“Do what your heart tells you.”
“If you truly love her, then love her.”
I had spent years searching for my mate, enduring the agony of her absence, hoping that one day, I would find her and bring her home. That day had finally come, yet nothing was as I had imagined.
Zoraya was carrying another man’s child.
The thought sent a sharp pang through my chest. I didn’t want to feel this way—I didn’t want to resent the child growing inside of her, an innocent soul who had no control over how they were conceived. But the reality of it was suffocating.
She was mine.
She was supposed to be mine.
But someone had stolen a part of her before I could even find her
