Ravenden by Julie Trettel

Author:Julie Trettel [Trettel, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

Gia

Chapter 12

My head was swimming. I certainly hadn’t expected things to happen so quickly, but David was my one true mate, and we’d just sealed our bond.

I couldn’t stop grinning. He’d claimed me.

I didn’t think being under the influence of multiple supernatural substances was affecting anything when it came to him. I wanted this. I wanted him. Forever.

My entire life I’d felt like an outsider, like I didn’t fully belong. Here in David’s arms, I felt whole, complete, perfect—I was enough.

David changed positions to stretch out on the couch pulling me down beside him. He stared at me with wonder in his eyes, making me feel like the most beautiful woman in the world.

My head was no longer swimming from the stuff I’d consumed. I was razor-sharp focused on my mate.

“Are you okay?” he asked sweetly.

I nodded but couldn’t stop grinning.

He reached up gently touching the mark he’d left on me. He frowned.

“Does it hurt?”

“No. Does yours hurt?”

He shook his head. “I didn’t mean to bite you. I don’t know what came over me. I’m so sorry. Nothing like that has ever happened to me before.”

My heart dropped and I fought back tears threatening to spill over. “Y-you didn’t mean to? You didn’t want to claim me?”

“Huh? Claim you?”

What had been a beautiful, perfect moment, came crashing down as reality set in.

I sat up and tried to cover myself.

“You didn’t know?”

“Know what?”

“What you were doing. You bonded yourself to me, what? On accident?”

I couldn’t stop the tears now as they silently slid down my cheeks.

He reached up and wiped them with the pad of his thumb. I wanted to pull back and protect my heart. I wanted to hurt him the way he was hurting me. I had thought we were in this together. He had bit me first. It wasn’t like I had initiated it.

If I hadn’t bit him back it would have only made things worse. A half bond was even worse than a rejected one. It could especially drive a male mad.

Then again, I was stuck in some sort of portal where vampires and gargoyles existed.

“That’s it,” I whispered.

“What’s it?” David asked, still sounding completely confused about everything.

“This isn’t real. It can’t be. Sex demons and fairies? None of this is real. That means you aren’t real either. You sealing our bond is just me projecting a desire to belong somewhere. And right now that you’re rejecting it, well that just shows how screwed up I really am inside because deep down I don’t think I’m actually worthy of love. But this is all nothing but a dream and soon I’m going to wake up and this nightmare will all be over with.”

Even as I said the words aloud, a deep empty pit ripped my heart in two. I could feel the physical pain of my current reality when I expected to feel enlightened by the truth of it all.

“What are you talking about, Gia? You are amazing and worth so much more than me. Selfishly, I’m not sure I can simply walk away from you.

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