Chapter 115

Emmeline nestled her head into the pillow, cradling the phone between both hands as if it were his face. “I miss you, too,” she confessed in a tremulous murmur. “So much. You were my only escape from the dreariness of my life. Just being around you was enough to make me forget all my troubles for a little while. I could drown in the depths of your eyes...” She trailed off, burying her face in the pillow as a lump rose in her throat. “I need you, too.”

The music and ambient noise from the bar cut off abruptly as he seemed to exit wherever he’d been. “You’re right - at first, I indeed needed a distraction from the emptiness of my life.”

Emmeline remained silent, recognizing the difficult truth in his admission even when it pierced through her heart.

Zavian exhaled an unsteady breath. If only it were that simple. If only he could just lay it all out there, tell her the truth about his world – the world he belonged to. That she was his mate, plain and simple. The one p