I grabbed my purse and turned to Lance. "Let's go."
We walked toward the door, and I could feel Damien's eyes on me the entire way. My wolf was howling. She felt torn between the mate bond that still connected us and the hurt and anger that had built up over years of neglect.
Just before we left, I stopped and turned back one more time.
"You know what the worst part is, Damien?" I said "It's not that you don't love me. I've known that for a long time. It's that you won't even respect me enough to let me go with dignity. You keep me trapped in this marriage while you build a life with someone else. You let your friends attack me, question my character, threaten people I care about while you just sit there and watch."
Damien’s jaw clenched.
"I used to think the mate bond mea
