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She’d lost him.
She’d lost Sardaan.
The man she loved.
Dani closed her eyes and slumped in her chains, emotionally drained. No… she wasn’t drained. She was numb. The place in the center of her chest where her heart normally lay was dead. Cold.
In a way she was grateful, but she knew it was little more than a small reprieve. When the numbness wore off, the ragged hole in the center of her chest where her heart had been ripped out would swamp her in agony.
She’d lost her mate—the alien husband she hadn’t wanted at first but now couldn’t live without. Quite when she’d fallen for him she didn’t know. It didn’t matter. She had fallen. Hard and fast. A bitter snort escaped her, the sound emerging as one of misery. Like a wounded animal, her voice betrayed the pain she didn’t… couldn’t f
