“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?” ― James Patterson
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(Aleesa)
The wolf's eyes shone as he looked at me and my heart went boom-boom. I knew it was unnatural, and it was not supposed to beat like that. His eyes were so intense, so powerful... "And I have been waiting for years to tell this to you."
"What?"
"I am- I am your mate," and then the wolf looked agitated as he shook his head, and then I found myself staring into the dogged eyes of Caleb. My mate.
I am his mate? But rather than making me excited, it made me forlorn. Sad. Like someone had just ripped out a page from my beautiful story, and thrown it on to the pyre.
Years? Years?!
He had known that I was his mate for years, and yet he never told me anything?
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