Chapter 40

Willow’s POV

My blood began to boil as he assumed that I was his because of some stupid mate bond that has proven to me once again to be just a messed-up ruse by the Goddesses. If he thought that he had some kind of claim on me just because I was foolish enough to let him mark me, he had another thing coming.

Derrick disappeared into the forest and Damon’s full attention was now on me as he tried to take another step towards me and I held my hands up and pulled from my source of magic within me. My hands began to surge with electricity as I said to him, “I am not yours. I am no one’s but my own.”

Damon’s eyes began to glow red at that moment and through gritted teeth he says to me, “You are mine and you will be going with me.”

In my hands I conjured up an orb of electricity and held it in front of me as I saw Damon’s eyes begin to glow a fire red as if there was a fire within him. Fear began to consume me because this was not the Damon that I had just mated with. This was more