Patrick.
The words washed over him. He felt a lightness that he’d never felt before. A lightness that he never imagined he could feel. Nothing else mattered in that moment than her words. Her confession. Her profession of love for him. Patrick had prepared himself for the worst. He had readied his heart to never find his mate in the first place. He had come to terms with the reality that he may not get to experience the completeness that all wolves longed for when finding their true other half. He hadn’t allowed himself to expect to get this far because of the possibility of never meeting her.
And, even after meeting her, he had been prepared for her rejection. At one point, he had fully believed that she would leave him because of what she’d gone through and that he wouldn’t be enough f
