Adrien.
Dissolve the bond?
For a moment, I genuinely thought my ears were playing tricks on me.
The words echoed repeatedly inside my head, refusing to make sense no matter how many times I replayed them mentally.
Maria wanted to dissolve the mate bond?
Impossible.
Absolutely impossible.
I took a slow step backward, my eyes fixed tightly on her face as I searched desperately for any sign that she was joking.
Any sign that this was another one of her attempts to push us away but there was nothing, no hesitation, no softness, no trace of uncertainty and that was when it finally hit me.
She truly meant it.
My chest tightened painfully.
Why would she think of dissolving the bond?
Hadn't we already admitted our mistakes?
Hadn't we apologized?
I had just told her we were ready to make amends.
So why was she suddenly trying to cut us out of her life completely?
"What?" I blurted out instantly, unable to stop the disbelief in my voice.
Maria frowned immediately.
