Explain? Now he wanted to explain?

Another.

“Why can’t I feel the mate bond anymore? Why does it feel… gone? Avery, where are you?”

I didn’t reply. I wouldn’t. I blocked his number, severing the last tie between us.

The mate bond? It had broken the moment he chose Maureen over me.

I leaned back, watching as the plane taxied down the runway.

I had done it. I had left it all behind.

I was finally free.

And I was never coming back.