Anna's POV:

Vivian pulls back enough to look at my face. She keeps one hand on my arm.

"The mate bond is the Moon Goddess's blessing," she says. Her voice is steady, certain in the way she gets when she's decided something is true and will argue it into the ground. "He can't betray that. It doesn't work that way."

"He won't even give me a promise." My voice comes out rough and stripped. "Not one real one. Not the kind you can hold when he's not ...