Chapter 41: Moving Darkness - Valeria

I stare at her wide-eyed as those words finally make sense to me now. “You were going to reject me…” I whisper in shock. She learned I was her soulmate, and her first reaction was to reject me?! What the fuck?!

“I didn’t go through with it. I made a snap judgement and realised I was wrong. I wanted to give you a chance,” she says desperately.

“You were going to reject me without even telling me what we were?! What the fuck, Izzy?!” I shout, getting to my feet.

She’s up just as fast, looking at me with desperation, “You were pointing a gun at me and promising to kill me right after your brother had tortured me in your family’s prison. What would you have done?”

That shuts me up. How the hell am I supposed to get mad at her now? She was tortured nearly to death. My family was going to kill her just because she was different and I was exactly the same. I aimed my gun with every intention to shoot. I totally would have rejected me if I was her. With all she’s suffered and endured, who