Primal (The Prey Drive, #1)

by Kayleigh King

For the ones who’ve felt expendable⁠— You are worthy of being someone’s first choice. Always.

She is my fated mate. My scent match. The one soul in existence designed to fit against mine in a way that no one else ever could. The one meant to balance, anchor, and complete me. And I have to reject her.

She is meant to be my destiny, my perfect match. She is my heart living and beating beyond the confines of my chest. And I have to break it. To break her.

For her I will be the monster. I will be the villain in our painfully short-lived love story, the one who walked away. The one who picked duty over our shared destiny.

“Some choices bring reward, while others carry consequences too heavy to bear. So rarely are we given a means to repair the damage made by these consequences. If granted this kind of gift, I suggest you not be so thoughtless in your decision-making in the future.”

“Your bond isn’t ripped apart, only frayed, Noa,” she insists. “You’ll see soon enough that a bond like yours isn’t something so easily destroyed. Trust me, my girl, I tried. The best I could do was delay it.”

I vow, right here and now, that one day, hearing me say her name will be the thing that heals her, not breaks her.

“I beg your finest pardon?”