#Chapter46 The Shadows

Violet My hands shook at the thought. It was unsettling, to say the least. I had been so sure. We both had been so sure that we were mates. It had been the only reason we’d gotten married in the first place. The thought that it had been a lie made me doubt the past seven years, made me doubt the mark that was still on my wrist. It felt like everything I knew about how I had come to be here, now with Theodore, with Darkmoon, and everything else was only half real. In some ways, so much of who I was right now felt half real if… If Lucas and I hadn’t been mates. If we hadn’t been blessed by the Goddess, then what— “Violet?” I lifted my head and looked at her. She smiled. Her eyes were warm with understanding. “You should not send yourself into the depths of panic over something so small.” I clenched my jaw. “... small?” Her gaze softened. “Dear Violet, did you really… think that Goddess would send you – you of all people – someone as small as Lucas proved to be?” I could ba