She didn't rush him.
She simply waited, patiently and calmly.
"Hm? What is it?" she asked softly.
"Let's… formally reject each other."
The words hit her like a blade to the chest.
For a second, Addison couldn't breathe. Her head rang, her vision dimmed at the edges as if a bomb had just exploded in her mind, and deep inside her, she felt her wolf stir violently as if it was on the verge of waking up out of anger.
But Addison couldn't focus on any of that. All she could hear was the shattering of her own heart.
Of all the possibilities, of all the fears she carried, this was the one she never thought would come from Levi.
Among the three of her fated mates, she might even think or expect Zion of wanting to reject this mate bond because of their past, or Maxwell wanting to reject her as his mate because he didn't know her, or for some other reasons.
But Levi?
Levi, who had been her friend long before the mate bond… her confidant… the one constant presence she trusted?
