Holding everything in

The memory was so vivid, almost like a movie playing in my mind.

I remember being shocked at his recovery. I’d never seen a human heal so fast. But that was only the tip of the iceberg.

When he’d finally woken up, he was fully prepared to tear the hospital apart to get to Marina.

He’d called her his mate.

Which could only mean that when she said we were both his soulmates, that’s what he had meant all those years ago.

“Trying to wrack that pretty little head for anything to dispute what he’s saying?” Marina snickered, waltzing into the room like she owned the place.

I lifted my head, staring into her icy blue eyes. They lacked warmth, and I wondered why she hated me so much when I had been the one kept in the dark all this time.

“Nothing to say?” she shook her head, arching a brow.

“Why would you do that to him?”

The question had been burning in the back of my mind. In all honesty, Marina had consistently done things that would hurt the man that she claims to love in an attempt to hu