“What is the point of it if I can’t be fulfilled with my mate forever?”

Ava knows it’s because of his annoyance with her that he’s saying those words, his annoyance with the fact that she can’t be with him forever. She heard the question well but it’s a question she doesn’t want to answer, or rather, a question she cannot provide an answer to. She decided to change the topic by telling him about herself.

“My home, the moonlight pack had a lot of different laws, the supreme of all which was the law of the betrothed Luna. For decades, they never abided by the mate bond when it...