Mignon's POV:
I struggled with everything I had, shoving at his solid chest, but a helplessness I couldn't control swept through my whole body. Over the past five years, the mate bond he had left on me had deepened day by day through our shared life, and even Dawson wouldn't be able to strip it away easily. Right now that mark was an invisible chain locking my limbs in place. His scent forced its way into my nose, and my body softened against my will.
"Get off me." I clenched my teeth in desperation, tears spilling from my eyes.
Just as I thought I was about to be devoured by that sickening mark, a strange, searing heat suddenly rose from my lower abdomen. It flared like a small combustion at the center of me, sweeping outward from my womb through every limb. It was as though the tiny p
