“Pax needs me.”
I watched helplessly as Odessa stormed out of the room. Dropping onto the couch, I rested my face in my hands. Maybe I was doomed to be a terrible mate. Perhaps not in the same way my father had been, but in new, almost crueler ways.
“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and go after her!” Hunter grumbled.
“She needs space right now,” I muttered back. I’d like space from myself right about now. “She deserves so much better than me.”
Hunter made a derisive sound in his throat. “She loves you. She was made for you. You should trust the Goddess.”
“Trust the Goddess?” I scoffed at him. “Trust the Goddess who left her in Deep Waters as a helpless child? The same Goddess that allowed her mother to go insane? The same one that let my father-“
“She’s not responsible for every dec
