•Dahlia• Hayden’s gaze became so cold that I could literally feel chills crawling up my skin. Too far. I must have pushed a little too far. “You don’t have to really worry. I don’t plan on exercising my status as your mate.” I backtracked a little. A mate bond was not all that supreme. As long as both parties could get themselves to accept that they didn’t want to be with each other, rejecting the pull of the bond, it could be dissolved. But such an action was not without its consequences. Breaking a mate bond and letting your soulmate go would chip out years of your life and strength, depending on how strong the bond was. Or in better terms, how strong the owners of the bond were. For people like the king and I, he had a superior alpha wolf while I had a purebred beta wolf, our mate

