“What were you searching for in these books, Professor?” “A way to undo or to remove the fated mate bond,” he says with no emotion at all. I flinch, trying my best not to show it, but his words sting, sting like he just slapped me hard around the face. “You said no more lies,” he says more gently. “You didn’t want to be bonded to me?” “You just said you didn’t want to be bonded to me, Rhianna.” “I said I didn’t choose it. I didn’t say I didn’t want it.”
