CHAPTER 141 New World with You

  ~ CARA ~

  There was an incredible moment when Rig started putting images and memories in my head—they were so much more than anything I could see with my eyes. Colored by feelings and sensations. 

  He showed me the night he'd first accepted the bond, back when I was still completely ignorant. 

  I felt the dual resolution and resignation in him, the knowledge that he was doomed to love me for the rest of his life whether I could feel the bond or not. The fear he'd felt that I wouldn't believe he'd committed to me.

  And his disgust with himself when I thought he was still sleeping with others. Especially Natalie. 

  And then, when he thought of Natalie—blond, glossy, coiffed Natalie—the image that appeared in my mind was so... bland. 

  "Wait, wait," I said. "Are you doing that on purpose?"

  "Doing what?"

  "Making her look so drab next to me."

  Rig rolled his eyes. "Natalie isn't drab."