~CELINE~
My entire body trembled as I lay there in the tangled sheets, the gravity of what had just happened crashing over me like a tidal wave. The mate bond – that impossible, undeniable connection I'd felt forming between us – threatened to shatter everything I'd carefully planned. My fingers clutched the silk sheets until my knuckles turned white, trying to ground myself as my mind spun with the implications.
It all finally made sense.
Why the man had become the object of my every thought since the first day we met.
How my body responded to even the littlest of actions from him. I couldn't bring myself to hate the man as much as I wanted to.
I figured it would pass.
I'd crafted such a perfect plan: seduce Ragnar, make him want me so desperately that I could manipulate my way
