Total pages in book: 53
Estimated words: 51358 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 257(@200wpm)___ 205(@250wpm)___ 171(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 51358 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 257(@200wpm)___ 205(@250wpm)___ 171(@300wpm)
Her scream rips through the space above me, and I’m speeding into her room before I can draw my next breath.
I skid to a halt at the sight of Annika there, standing just outside Aurora’s bathing chamber.
“What’s wrong?” I snap. “Is she hurt?”
“I just got here,” Annika says, eyes wide with worry.
“Aurora,” I plea. “Open the door.”
The door swings open.
Aurora wears panic all over her face, a hand over a spot on her neck.
“Are you hurt?” I’m instantly reaching for her, tugging at her hand.
“I don’t know,” she says, letting her hand fall.
I stumble back a few steps, barely hearing Annika’s gasp as my mind empties. I blink, as if that will clear my eyes and I will stop seeing what I’m seeing on Aurora’s neck.
Ink spreads and swirls in the exact shape of a mating mark—
“Is this your mark or his?” Aurora asks, tears lining her eyes.
I keep backing away, unable to make sense of anything.
“Saint,” she begs, following after me. “Please,” she says. “Please, tell me this is your mark.”
I open and close my mouth a few times. I would feel it, wouldn’t I? I search inward, finding only the ice I’ve encased my heart in since before we went into stasis.
“Saint,” Aurora begs.
“For fuck’s sake, Saint,” Annika says. “Say something.” She wraps her arms around a now trembling Aurora.
I lock onto her, trying to get an answer. She’s begging me to tell her it’s mine, but Samuel and I are identical twins in every way, right down to that mark.
“I…” I reach her opened door, shaking my head. “I don’t know.”
Aurora folds into Annika’s arms, a sob wrenching from her lips that rips me to shreds. I turn my back on her, her panicked cries following me as I try to outrun this new fate.
Either Aurora is my brother’s mate…
Or she’s mine.
And neither of those outcomes is good enough for her.
The End