Chapter Nineteen
Our eyes locked for much longer than I was comfortable with. And I do not know why it is that I was just standing there looking at him, letting him look at me. And it just felt like I could not breathe. My breath was getting caught in my throat, and it was just making it harder to feel like I would survive this ordeal, like I would survive being trapped in here with him.
Why did I feel like this? It was all so strange. Maybe indeed, Stella’s advice was coming in handy in this moment because I had to know that all of this was that thing I did not choose to have …. It was all because of that mate bond, the thing that tied us to each other even when we did not want to be. I truly know for a fact that neither one of us would be wanting to be in this situation right now if
