Flora’s P.O.V

“Mate.”

Shocked gasps and whispers sounded from all around me but it felt like everything was so very far away.

Did I hear him right? Are my ears ringing?

But when I looked up into topaz eyes, I could see the shock and realization there as well. Andre was looking at me with his eyes wide, pupils’ dilated as the others in the room looked at us in wonder.

Mate?

Mate…

The word, the concept…it all felt foreign…like I was hearing them for the first time. I had found my mate, right? Andre Saltzman…the general of the new recruit army…was my mate…

But didn’t I feel anything?

“What...