I clenched my fist at my sides. “I never did this because I expected something back.”
“Then stop acting like I owe you something!” she cried. Her throat bobbed as she struggled to keep tears at bay. “You say you’re my mate, but I never felt it, Sargis! No strings pulled at my soul. No magic tethered me to you. I don’t feel it.”
I didn’t move. Couldn’t. My hands trembled at my sides as I stared at her, swallowing down the ache that threatened to c***k open my chest.
I nodded slowly, biting the inside of my cheek to keep from saying something I’d regret.
Is that… really what she thought of me?
Just some overbearing warden in a palace she never wanted to be in?
“You’ve been kind, yes, and you say you care for me, Sargis, but caring isn’t suffocating someone. Caring isn’t making decision
