Amber
“I found my destined mate.”
Those five words echoed in my head like some sick joke the universe decided to play on me.
I understood them. Perfectly. Crystal clear.
I knew what they meant—for Ian, for me, for everything we’d built between us. But no matter how clearly I heard them, how loudly they reverberated inside my skull, I couldn’t seem to accept them.
No. No, this couldn’t be happening. Not now. Not to us.
For a split second, time stopped. The world outside the car blurred into meaningless shapes and colors. The only thing I could hear was the pounding of my own heart, thudding louder and louder, until it felt like it was going to tear through my ribcage.
Ian had found his fated mate.
Which meant…
That meant…
“You can't be with him,” Irma taunted, her voice cold and s
