20

I was absolutely stunned. He never would have done this in my first life. The only thing he had ever given me was scorn and hatred.

“Maybe this isn’t the same timeline, Ela,” Val tells me, “It can’t be.”

She is almost in tears of relief, that hope of being accepted by our mate blossoming inside her once again.

“He would have told us if he felt the mate bond, though. Remember how you were the first time we laid eyes on him? If my uncle had not been holding on to us as we walked down the aisle, you would have made me run to him.” His indifference and cold demeanor is what prevented me from saying anything to him when I finally could speak to him at the reception, away from my uncle. His attitude was like ice water dousing me and waking us from the spell the mate bond cast over us.

“You are being pretty cold to him in this life. Maybe he is just too scared to say anything, just like you were.”

“Well, I’m not going to be the first to say it now, either. If he feels the mate bond, he wi