She closed her eyes slowly, exhaling a shaky breath as she finally relaxed, her body unwinding from the tension that had held her so tightly.
As I watched her sleep, my mind wandered back to everything that had happened. Everything had shifted when we found her. We didn’t just mate with her—we had bonded. But this bond… it wasn’t like anything I had expected. We were supposed to be partners, mates, soulmates, whatever you wanted to call it. But Valerie… she felt different. More complicated than anything we had ever experienced. I couldn’t shake the feeling that we were missing something.
I ran a hand through my hair, trying to push the thoughts out of my mind. I was probably overthinking it. She didn’t know what was going on. She didn’t remember anything clearly, and she certainly wasn’t
