Chapter 26

Bonnie

“I don’t understand.” He’s just thrown a major curve ball at me and I have so many things I want to say but at the same time, I feel speechless. “I thought you… you didn’t want me as your mate?”

He runs his hand through his hair before letting out a long sigh.

“It was never that I didn’t want you as my mate. It was never personal to you; I just didn’t want a mate full stop. Well, I wouldn’t allow myself to. It’s all so complicated.” He lets out a huff of frustration seeming to match the frustration that I feel inside of me.

“It’s complicated how? I don’t understand?”

He has to explain this because there’s no way I can figure it out alone.

“Do you remember how I said that Lottie’s arrival was not your usual story?”

I nod.

“Well, her arrival and my whole complicated mate situation is kind of an all-in-one thing.”

I understand what he’s trying to say... I think.

“I know you want to know the story and I will tell