CHAPTER 30: A FORBIDDEN ACT

AUTHOR’S POV Her legs bolted across the supermarket as she managed to avoid crashing into any shoppers. What a disaster that would be, she thought to herself. She could hear Zane calling out her name, but she ignored him. When she felt him trying to talk to her through the mindlink, she put her barrier up.  All she thought of was her mate. The man she’d dreamt of all her life but never had a face to it, now she would. The joy that spread through her whole body was sweet. She’d never felt such a free kind of happiness.  Finally, she would have someone she could call her own, like Gale and Zane. Reina didn’t want to admit it, but she felt lonely. When Gale found Alyssa, that was when she felt the first sad, envious pain. She wanted a love like theirs, but she was still thankful because she and Zane were in it together. And then he’d found his mate some years later and abandoned her.  She never truly understood the reason why he did that, but she didn’t pressure him to explain i