Chapter 44

Evelyn's pov

I don't know how I was even able to eventually force myself to sleep. Maybe because I could not bear to turn around and to see that look in his eyes. I don't even know how to describe it. I wouldn't say that he was absolutely disgusted but he didn't look particularly pleased. It was as if the night could have turned out any other way for him and it just happened to dive into the worst possible scenario. My fingers had buried themselves into the bed sheet until I was afraid that they would tear red through the fabric and I had to relax more out of tiredness than the willingness to sleep. I had fallen into slumber again.

Nobody got to choose their mate. That was something that I learned at a very young age; it was something that would come to you like a tsunami. A full force that was so powerful and so overwhelming that it would completely take over your world before you even realized it and it would have you spinning out of control there was no way that you could possibl