Matthew
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I clutched my chest as pain swirled over me, threatening to overwhelm me.
“Accept it,” my mate said through gritted teeth, sweat now mixing with tears on her face.
“Never,” Torin and I growled, my eyes flickering to black as I dropped to one knee.
Her words had thrown me, shook me to my core as a vice gripped my heart tighter and tighter. Were women really the weaker s*x? I looked up at her from my prone position. She was crying and clearly in pain, yet she was the one standing while I was on my knees.
She was a person; that’s what she’d said. She didn’t want to be used, didn’t want to be a tool.
I mean, I knew that but I guess I didn’t act that way to women. I didn’t acknowledge them at all. I’d figured I’d be different with my mate, but would I really have be
