Chapter 14. Afraid of What He Might Do

Athena

“But it did happen again. And again. Each time, he’d find a way to make it about the mate bond. I was disrespecting our connection, I was being ungrateful for the gift the goddess had given us. The bond that was supposed to protect me became the weapon he used to control me.”

I can feel Tristan trembling with barely controlled fury, can hear the low growl building in his chest. His wolf is close to the surface, responding to the threat against his pack, his family.

“The last time…” I have to stop, the memory too painful. There’s so much I’m not telling him, so much I can never tell him.

Like how I’d lost our pup two months before our mating ceremony. How Daxon had kicked me so hard in the stomach the day I had caught him cheating, that I’d miscarried our child right there on the bathroom floor.

How I’d finally found the strength to say no to him on what should have been our wedding night.

But I can’t tell Tristan that. I ca