Willow
My outburst drew the attention of the Atlans, who turned as a group to watch the interaction. I knew enough about them to know that if Oberon threatened me in any way, he wouldn’t live to regret it. But why was he doing this to me?
I should want to slap him across his handsome face. So why had my heart done a silly little flip in my chest? Was I completely insane? I’d been sitting her about to cry over Zarren, and now I was swooning with Oberon? Next level. Really. I had to get myself together. “I do not want a mate. I just got rid of one.”
Oberon placed the ribbon in my open palm and closed my fingers around it. “I am not claiming you as my mate. I am offering you the protection of the Arcas family. You are young, beautiful, and unmated. Were you a Prillon female, your family wo
