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CHAPTER 81
~Jade's POV~
For a moment, neither of us moved.
My hand was still braced against his chest where I had collided with him, and his warmth of his seeped straight through my palm as if the contact alone had ignited something electric between us.
My breath caught halfway in my lungs while the mate bond pulsed violently, far stronger than anything I had felt with the others during our first encounters.
Javelin paced wildly inside my head, her excitement vibrating through my veins.
"Mate," she repeated with strong satisfaction as though she had found her missing rib.
The guy in front of me looked just as stunned. His hand had instinctively wrapped around my arm to steady me when I stumbled, and now his grip tightened slightly as though he were afraid I might disappear if he let go.
He wasn't wrong. I was tempted to shove him of fand runaway before my brain made sense of whatever twisted game the Moon Goddess was playing at—a fourth mate.
