Chapter 33: Some truth

*Tilly POV*

Onyx’s eyes burn with promise as he stares at me, practically begging me to feel the mate bond that has been suppressed on my end. There is no denying he is still the most attractive man I have ever laid eyes on. I still feel weak in the knees when I’m around him. His heavy gaze makes it hard to think but that electric buzz. The one that grips you so tight, pinching your gut until you announce to the world that you are mates. That is gone.

I refuse to acknowledge the flutter in my stomach or the heat in my cheeks at his declaration of making me his. Goddess, how those words would have made me melt into his hands just days ago. None of it matters anymore. He destroyed what we could have been and I’m a rogue now, even if he changed his mind about Harriet. He made his choice, and I made mine based on it. We both must live with the consequences of his actions.

“You’re delusional if you think I was ever yours. I was meant to be yours, but you threw me away. And suddenly you w