Elyse pov
He stopped, hand on the door. “Yes?”
“Does she know? Your mother. Does she know about…” I gestured vaguely between us. “About this?”
“The mate bond? Yes. I told her.”
“And?”
“And she wants to meet you.” He looked back at me. “She’s grateful. More than grateful. You gave her life back.”
“But what does she think about her son being mated to a witch?”
Something flickered in his eyes. “She thinks fate knows what it’s doing. Even when we don’t understand why.”
He left before I could respond.
I sat in the quiet room, processing everything.
I’d saved his mother. I’d nearly killed myself doing it. And now I was stuck here, in this impossible situation, with no clear path forward.
The revenge I’d been planning, against Papa, against everyone who’d hurt me felt distant now. Uni
