025 | Unicorns are real and oh, yeah, my sister is unfaithful

Hyacinth’s POV

I shuffled back until my back pressed against the wall. “All of it?” I joked weakly. “So unicorns are really real?”

“Cin,” she sighed.

I bit my lip. “I heard the two of you together. I thought it was the Luna, but then you came out…” I looked up hesitantly. “What about Stephen?”

“Goddess, I know.” Rhiannon dipped her head, strands of silver falling over her face as she sucked in a rasping breath.

“He’s your mate,” I snapped, my own pain morphing into righteous anger. “How could you do that to him? How can you even look at another guy after feeling the mate bond snap into place? I thought–”

She cut me off. “Because Stephen isn’t my real mate.”

And I felt like my world imploded.

What in all of the goddess’s green earth was that supposed to mean? I’d been there when they’d felt the mate bond join them together forever. I’d seen the way they’d been ever since: barely able to keep their hands off each other, staring at each other with those huge, adoring, puppy-dog eyes, g