I couldn’t believe it. No matter how many times I tried to convince myself otherwise, the truth was unavoidable: I had fallen in love with Louis. I, Angela White, who had vowed to never let my heart get entangled after everything that had happened, had fallen for him. It was a terrifying realization. How could I have let this happen? This was someone who had repeatedly told me point blank that he wouldn’t and couldn’t be with me. The only thing that kept him coming back to me was the mate bond. And I’d gone ahead and actually fallen in love with him regardless. Shit.

I made my way towards...