Sable's POV
"I unbound you," I said slowly, pulling the words back up from that night, careful to get them exact. "The mate bond doesn't exist between us anymore. It never will again."
Yarrow's eyes stayed fixed on mine the whole time, not blinking, not moving.
"That's it? Nothing more before the chanting is cut off?"
"That's it. Then the Elder started the old tongue, and everything happened fast after that."
She sat with it for a long moment, turning the words over in her head the way I'd been turning them over in mine for days now.
"He unbound you," she repeated quietly. "Not us. You."
"Does that matter?"
"It might." She didn't explain further, just filed it away with that same careful look she'd been giving everything I told her. "I need to think on this more before I say anythi
