Royal Mate (Bound to the Fae Book 4) by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2021-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

18

Corwin

Talia’s bedroom door has appeared more impenetrable to me every time I’ve stood before it over the past two days. Looking at it now, I yet again grapple with the conflicting impulses inside me.

My soul-twined mate is on the other side of that door. Even with the bond between us dulled by her resistance, it tugs at my heart. The knowledge of how angry she is, how much I damaged her trust in me, has been searing into me like a burning blade from the moment she berated me in the dining room. If I let go of the tight grip I’m holding over my emotions, I might go as mad as those wolves she cares for so much do under the full moon.

It was a misstep, not a purposeful act of betrayal. I couldn’t have harmed her with intent. She knows that, and yet reasoning it out, offering whatever is in my power to give her, hasn’t been enough to bring her back.

Maybe that’s fair. The Heart doesn’t work through reason, does it? What kind of madness is it already for me to be bound to a human woman who’s already devoted herself to not one but three Seelie?

A soul-twined bond isn’t meant to be a business partnership. It’s about the deepest affection and intimacy. I didn’t really think I’d be able to hold back as much as I do in every other area of my life. I just never expected it to turn out like this, with so many complexities and obstacles…

I close my eyes, my hands clenching at my sides. Every nerve in my body balks at the display I came here planning to make. I’m well aware of what comes with unchecked passions and how thoroughly they can ruin everything else around them.

But Talia needs to know how much this bond matters to me. How much she matters to me. She’s come all this way, left behind everything she knew and cared about, to give me a chance. How can I say I deserve her if I won’t compromise anything of myself?

These past two days knowing she’s here and being unable to even see her have hollowed out my chest in a way I haven’t felt since— Well, I’d rather not think of that. And truthfully, this is even worse.

The dining room where I once ate on my own at leisure now blares her absence. I can’t sit at my harp without remembering her poised on the settee listening to me play for that brief, beautiful moment when we were utterly at peace with each other. When I try to sleep, her voice rings through my mind, sharp with the pain she showed when she discovered my uninvited spell.

This isn’t how these ten days were supposed to go. And with every passing hour, she’s slipping farther away from me.

If I want to bring her back before she’s too far for me to ever reach, I have to give her everything I can.

Girding myself, I sink to my knees and rest my forearms on the floor.

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