“She’s not dead, Reed.”
“Stop pulling my legs, Synn.” The Alpha King snapped at the Mother of Thorns, his chest heaving with uncontrolled anger. “It’s clearly obvious that she’s not breathing, and that her heart has stopped beating. Why the f**k are you doing this to me?” His gaze shot up to look at her, his eyes red with unshed tears.
You know, it was crazy, but he had been trying so hard not to give in to this miraculous bond all because he had been afraid to be hurt, and it seemed pretty ironic and anticlimactic that just when he had decided that he was going to give it a shot, the very same fate that had practically pushed the girl upon his shoulders would so cruelly take her away from him.
“Like I said, Your Eminence, she’s still very much alive. Her body has just wisely shut down
