Aurora's POV
Hearing Zayne's voice, I stepped back. “Tell me it’s not true.”
He closed his eyes, the tension draining from his face. “You heard what you heard.”
“Then tell me why,” I whispered. “Why would Jake curse me?”
He looked up, his eyes dark and pained. “Because you’re the one thing he can’t control.”
I blinked. “What does that even mean?”
He stepped closer as his hands trembled slightly, so he ran his hand through his hair. “Alan found out tonight that Jake tried to hire a witch, an old blood conjurer from the eastern coven.
She was paid to hex you, to weaken you during the mating ritual. That’s why my body rejected the bond.”
My heart stopped. “So… all this time, it wasn’t your illness?”
He shook up his head. “It was him. He didn’t just want me gone; he wanted to make s
