“Scarlett... what’s going on? Why am I tied up?”
I ignored Liam and focused entirely on Aurora instead. “It’s not like that, I swear. I just didn’t know—”
“—Enough,” she snapped. “I don’t want to hear your lies. You just wanted to make me trust you so that....”
But her voice faded as her attention was then stolen elsewhere, more important than anything else in that moment. And I knew exactly what it was.
The matebond.
I looked over towards Liam and confirmed it was the same, the two of them sharing a look that I knew was unlike anything else one would experience. A thousand thoughts and feeling were racing through their heads as they realised the truth of their relationship. Born from hatred, yet destined for each other. Only, in this case, I knew it would be considered a curse rather
