When the kiss broke, I stood on the altar in a vacuum, my soul scoured from my body. Declan’s grip on me loosened, but the mate bond thrummed between us with a finality that coiled in my stomach. It was done. Sealed. Permanent.
The greatest mistake of my life.
My eyes scanned the crowd, desperate for a single friendly face. One person who might believe me, who might see that something was profoundly wrong.
There was no one.
Every face that
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