Chapter 35

Flora’s P.O.V

I felt dead inside, like there was no meaning left to my life anymore.

If this had been anyone else then I could’ve questioned the mating bond; could’ve fought with the gods itself to claim my Clay. After all, how could a bond make complete strangers fall in love with each other?

But these weren’t strangers. This was Dorothy, my best friend; the woman I considered my sister. And Clay, the man I had given my heart to.

I knew now that breaking up with him before his birthday had been the correct decision. It had been a doomed relationship from the start.

Let’s break-up…until twelve.

I wanted to laugh at how delusional we had been. There was no way around a mating bond and once it sets in place, there was no way to reject it. Clay had told me several times that he would reject his mate for me, but I had left as soon as Dorothy had uttered the words I had never thought I would hear her say about Clay…’mate’.