Isla’s POV
I knew I couldn’t just reject the bond.
As much as I hated the idea of being tied to an arrogant, and obviously controlling Alpha like Killian, I couldn’t lie to myself. If he hadn’t saved me, if Arianna hadn’t failed to kill me… I wouldn’t be standing here. After Lucien rejected and banished me, I would’ve been dead. Killian was right. I wouldn’t have survived the aftermath.
The only reason I was still alive was because he had marked me. I became someone else's just hours after being rejected by the one I thought was mine. If I were to reject him now openly, publicly. I wouldn’t survive it.
But I knew he wasn’t daring me because he understood the risk.
He was daring me because he knew I wouldn’t do it.
Why?
Was I... attracted to him?
I couldn’t even tell if it was the
