Aira’s POV
“How could the Moon Goddess mate me to someone like Knox?” I wept.
Blanche sat next to me, her arm around me as sobs wracked my frame. “I’m so sorry, Aira. We should have left when you said to the first time. I was selfish.”
Damn straight we should have. “Oh no! Aaron’s delightful. I would have hated to deprive you of time with him,” I replied. Tears streamed down my cheeks, and I tried to wipe them away and present a brave face to Blanche, but it just wasn’t working this time.
I was heartbroken.
“No. We should have left. You’re too self-sacrificing,” Blanche said, hugging me tightly, her own tears freezing in my hair. “You’ll reject him. That’s all. You reject him first, and it will all be okay.”
I imagined rejecting Knox, and my own forehead burned, and my heart seized in……
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