Chapter 33

“You have me curious,” Mark said. “Death is the only way to break a Bond, or so I was told. However, the Rite is named Dissolution. You didn’t mention dissolution.”

“True. Dissolution is so horrendous, so torturous that few Sarrans will discuss its existence,” Jonal stated. “A mate asking for Dissolution is publicly abjuring the Bond. The petitioner, by requesting the rite, has declared their mate so horrific, so foul, that they are ready to risk death to be free of him. A true PairBond, once completed, ties you into your mate’s soul. Dissolution of a true Bond is torture. I have heard it described as having your beating heart pulled from your chest and living long enough to watch it crushed under a boot heel. It is worse for a Triad. Few survive. It is never done.”

“Merrrrrrrrrrrrow?”

All four heads turned at the sound. Mark barked, “Who has access to…?”

“Ah, Mark, it’s the Beast. He goes everywhere,” answered Bane.