Hannah’s POV
I sat in my room, too wrapped up in my own desolation. I knew Joseph. He just felt guilty. Maybe that had initially been his plan, to use me, to seduce me if I didn’t go along willingly with the bonding ceremony, but somewhere along the way his feelings had changed for me. That time after I’d been tortured, I’d tried. I’d tried to do it with him but he had refused. It had pissed me off at the time, but if it really had all been about seducing me for the bond, he would never have refused.
Sure, he had lied to me about my parents and kept me sealed me away in his manor, but if he hadn’t done that, he wouldn’t have fallen for me all over again. A small smile touched my lips. Because I knew, I knew he had fallen for me. That time Dylan tried to make him think we’d had s*x, he’
