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His eyes were on me, but he wasn't speaking.
     “Gerald?” I touched his hand. “You have something to tell me?”
     All he said was “I understand.”
     But I felt the need to speak out. Guilt was building up in me, filling me up like a cup that was ready to overflow with water. His consistent look at me couldn't let me have a moment of peace.
     “Actually… Andrea and Raguel… They tricked me into spending a private time with Amon.” It was hard for me to maintain my flow of words, and I took in breaths. “I didn't realize he would try to seduce me.”
     My hands were rubbing against each other, the sweat forming on my palms acted as lubricant.
     But Gerald's expression did not change. “That's not a big issue on ground.” He shook his head about three times. “You have something that belongs to Amon.”
     Something that belonged to Amon? What if he knew I was pregnant with Amon's child?

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Was it all about love or the mate bond?
     My lover, Amon, had left me for a girl he claimed was his fated mate, and I was torn apart, feeling like there was no life without him.
     In just a month, I met Gerald, the Alpha of another pack, and he turned out to be my mate. But then, I was pregnant with Amon’s child.
     I had decided to keep my pregnancy a secret because of the rule of my pack, and Amon was never aware of it. Gerald marked me without a hint of it, but things turned crazy when Amon showed up in secret, claiming he loved me.
     I was conflicted, but there was more to Gerald that I didn't know. Everyone around me was hinting vague things about him that they weren't certain of.
     Well, whatever it was, I was going to accept it as part of my fate.

Soulbound: Cursed Fates Between Mates

Austin had laid me on the floor of the bar, using cotton wool and some other substances he had taken from the inner room of the bar to wipe off the blood that was flowing out of the wound the panther shifters' claws had caused on me. It went all over my thighs, stinging as though their claws were piercing into me all over again.

"Sorry," Austin said, touching my inner thighs with the wool.

When each piece of the wool he was using was soaked up, he put it out to a spot beside me. He took up a new piece to clean it up, and my leg was shaking as I sucked in breaths, trying to contain the pain.

"Please… Gently with it…" I touched his arm, slowing him down.

But then, he stopped. His eyes focused on me, looking all over my body as though he'd seen something different about me.