Chapter Forty
Trina’s POV
The charged air between us dissipates, but it leaves whispers in its wake. It seems we can never entirely shake out of the feeling we find ourselves in, its seed sowing putting us in a spot where we can’t move out of. Or at least, I can’t move. The moon goddess must have had some weird joke going on when she put the both of us together in a pod – mates for life. It exudes such strong irony. Trina, mates with the man she looks forward to seeing his end.
“You can leave if you want to,” he murmurs, his walls snapped back into place. I see him shrug it off, act like nothing happened a few seconds ago, when in truth, our worlds shifted and threatened to collapse into each other. “I shouldn’t have called you down here.”
“But you did.”
“I thought I could…I don’t kno
