chapter 26

Valen If Everly thinks she can just dismiss me and I'll let her, she's wrong. I get what I want, and I want Everly. I refuse to be mated to some girl out of responsibility when I have a perfectly good, but unwilling, mate. My father would choke on his spit if he knew she was rogue, but I don't care. If she is my mate, then I trust the Moon Goddess; she would not give me a faulty one. Everly will be mine—I will make sure of that. Everyone has a breaking point, and I will find hers. I sit across the road, unable to contain my smile, watching the tow truck pull up to the hotel. I already sent the health and safety inspector in and can see his car in the parking lot from my vantage point. Her truck was just an added annoyance. The beeping of the reversing truck instantly alerts her staff something is going on. I see Zoe, Everly's little friend, rush out when she notices it backing up to the truck with the Hotel's logo on it. Everly believes she can ignore the mate bond; well, I will make s