Unbreakable Bond (Fated Mates Duet Book 1) by Jess Bryant

Author:Jess Bryant [Bryant, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Lemon Press
Published: 2018-05-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Zoey was totally eavesdropping. Not that she was doing it on purpose… or at least she hadn’t started eavesdropping on purpose. It was a wolf thing. Her hearing was far superior to what it had been just yesterday. She wasn’t standing with her ear to the door or anything. She didn’t have to. She was still standing in the kitchen, chomping on a piece of bacon, which was surprisingly delicious and cooked exactly how she liked it. But she’d heard every word that Rafe and Michael said.

At first, the tension she’d felt coming from her mate had worried her. She’d worried the two of them would come to blows again. The tone Michael had taken with him bristled her wolf and made her frown. When her friend had snapped at Rafe, she’d almost stormed out onto the porch and gotten between them. Which was exactly why Rafe had told her to stay inside.

He didn’t want to put her in the middle. He knew she cared about Michael. Just like he knew Michael cared about her, loved her even. But mostly she thought that he’d been worried if she got between them it would be to take Michael’s side. It was a silly, insecure thought and she hated that she’d put it in his head. Because yesterday it might have been true but today it was impossibly inconceivable to her.

She cared for Michael. She always would. He was her best friend and she loved him. But what he’d said about not loving her like a mate should… she finally, finally, understood that. Because that’s how she felt too.

Her attraction to him was gone and with her head and her heart a little clearer she could accept that a lot of what she’d wanted with Michael was to belong. To be one of them. Her parents were loving and supportive. The community was inclusive and welcoming. But she wasn’t a wolf and she’d always felt like an outsider here… except when she was with Michael.

He’d been her first friend and she’d clung to him fiercely. She’d made him the center of her universe. Just like he’d clung to her when his parents died and his brother left town. Even when they’d learned they weren’t mates, they’d clung to each other for reassurance that it would all be okay.

It hurt a little to hear Michael call her a consolation prize. She couldn’t deny that. But she also couldn’t deny that knowing what she knew now, he would have been hers too.

Because Michael didn’t need her. He never had. He was strong enough to stand on his own. But Rafe wasn’t. Rafe needed her in a way that she needed to be needed.

Listening to the two brothers talk, to try and set things right, she saw now just how right fate was to pair her with Rafe. Not just because the attraction between them was off the charts. But because she was the bridge that could span the distance between him and Michael.

She wasn’t the one that would divide them like she’d feared last night.

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