Chapter 381. Only One and Done

RHETT

The moment Jonda's eyes opened all the hope and fear melted away from me. I smiled at her and brushed her chestnut hair back from her face. "Beautiful, welcome back." I had cooed to her, giving her a genuine smile of my own and sending prayers to the gods for her waking from the coma.

Except that happiness was shattered when she scowled at me, finally focusing on my face.

"Where's Mike?" She tries to sit up looking around frantically. Her eyes scanned every crevice of the room with a deep scowl. It was not what I wanted to hear.

I felt something for Jonda, a connection, a pull. I wasn't sure it was love just yet but as I looked at the bite mark on her neck, the one I had given her, I couldn't understand why her wolf would not recognize me.

She was meant to have her wolf now that I had marked her. My bite should have broken her curse.

"Baby, take it easy," I tell her gently, even though my blo