ELLA
“What?”
I was finding it hard to make sense of what she’d just said. What the hell did she mean by I’d be getting mated to a Dark Stone heir? I’d literally already found my own mate. Why would she even come up with that?
“Repeating myself would be pointless, and I’m sure you’re very well aware of that, girl.”
My hands slowly tightened. “I already found my mate. Y—You saw…during the coming of age ceremony. So, why—”
Before I could finish my sentence, she’d already closed the distance between us. Something about the look in her eyes made me want to shrink where I stood. There was a certain something about learned helplessness. It left you incapacitated and feeling like there was nothing else you could do.
“Now, you listen to me, and you listen to me good,” she glared. “I am sick a
