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I fell into his lap with the realization that if this had been the case, if we’d met without blood on our souls and scars on our hearts, then we wouldn’t be permitted to marry. You could not stop a mating bond, but never in the entire history of Nodoya had a Gracewood and Volkahn tried to wed.
It would never have been allowed.
In mere hours, we would change history.
I wrapped my arms around his neck, holding him tight, so tight I could feel our hearts thunder together. Dade’s arms slowly came around me, his nose nuzzling into my neck, mine tickled by his hair. “What are we doing?” His voice was muffled by my skin.
“Hugging.”
“Okay,” he said, sounding a little baffled but not relinquishing his hold in the slightest. After a minute, his body hard as steel beneath my thigh, he whispered, “You make me forget.”
I squeezed my eyes closed.
Those words were all I could think of as I forced myself away from the pouting king and returned to my rooms for a restless night’s sleep.