I waited for the punch line, for him to say it was a joke, but it never came.
It was the same thing Erina had said, but somehow, hearing it from him made it sound a little more eerie.
“You cannot just kill people because I’m hurt,” I crossed my arms across my chest. “That’s absurd.”
He shrugged.
“We aren’t even really mated,” I continued. “This is all for show so you don’t need to do the whole-”
“Let me make something clear, Isadora. We may be doing this because we both need something out of it, but that doesn’t make the mating bond any less real.”
“But-”
He held up his hand to stop me.
That would’ve annoyed me on a good day, but surprisingly, I went quiet. I didn’t fight, didn’t even try to protest.
“If you think for even a second that you aren’t mine, then you’re sorely mistaken
