Chapter 18. You Can’t Lie to Your Mate

I turn, this time to walk away slowly, too exhausted for anything else and unable to maintain a run as fatigue overtakes me.

“I love you. No matter what I do to try to break it, I can’t stop, and the thought of you being with another kills me. There is no her anymore, Lorey. There’s just us. We imprinted and got to know each other in a split second, the way a lifetime of being together would. I feel like I’ve loved you that long, no matter how insane that sounds.” His words stop me in my tracks, and I inhale sharply. Stunned that he came out and said it, but saddened that he verbalized what the agony I have been suffering is called— Love! And why it feels like he’s been in my heart since the day I was born. Imprinting royally messes you up.

It made me love my mate as soon as it happened because it makes you relive every second that came before, in your head, within your memories, with that person’s entwined even though they don’t belong to you. I have his life in my head