Helanie:
I had no words to speak after she told me about the mate bond. It was as if something so impossible had happened that I could not even react to it. I just watched her face, and then Emmet’s.
What had happened? Why would the Moon Goddess pair me up with them, but then give them mates, and make another mate in a person that is so vile?
Or maybe she wasn’t. The way she came to his defense, she really loved him. But that didn’t mean she was a nice person, or did it?
She admitted that when she was dying, she cursed him out of anger and frustration and heartbreak. So what else was left?
I cannot call her a manipulator when she was just taking a stand for her mate. My heart broke at the thought of him having other mates. And I guess that is when I realized how they must have felt too when I did not want to be with one of them.
Now could I complain about them? Could I even say that they should not be with their mates? I wasn’t too sure. It just didn’t make any sense to me at the moment.
I guess the only difference was that when I came into Emmet’s life, there was no one alive in his life. So I thought I was the only one.
But now that she came into his life as a mate, we had already built that connection. So it was like inviting someone else entirely.
But then again, could I blame him for holding her hand and deciding to leave with her?
I didn’t marry him when he asked me to. So I couldn’t expect him to keep chasing after me.
Besides, after I found out that he was the reason my baby died, I could only feel sympathy for him, but no love.
"You’re not seriously telling us that you’re leaving with her to go and live in the wild. Do you not know how fucking dangerous the wild has become? What if you forget?"
Maximus was yammering, and I understood his pain. They still loved their brother. Fights and arguments happened, but Azura put the nail in the coffin when she gave Emmet the option to just leave.
"I’ll be fine. I’m not a child, besides—" Before he could finish, Azura spoke up.
"Besides, I will be with him," she said. The brothers just glared her down.
Tomorrow was the big trip, and I had to go for Gavin. He had specifically asked me to come, asked all of us to come. He wanted to feel alive again. So we were going to give him that. That’s when Norman walked in after a few minutes, looking defeated.
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