His Worthiness

Hycinth

I still couldn’t wrap my head around it-tomorrow I would be in heat.

The concept was impossible. Unfathomable, even.

Before Leander captured me several weeks ago, I never thought I’d consider the remotest possibility of mating with him.

I hated him.

How foolish I’d been…

I’d had no idea just how confounding the mate bond was, turning my thoughts from utter loathing to a feeling dangerously close to love. It scared the hell out of me.

And now…here we were.

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