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Nova didn’t know what Altair had against Rex, but she had more important things to worry about.
She walked forward to stand in front of him, just out of his reach in case he got any ideas to use her as a hostage.
“Who knows about me?” she asked.
Altair stared at her with hooded eyes, and again she was taken aback by the complete lack of anger or hate there.
“No one but me.”
She frowned. “You didn’t tell anyone?”
“No,” he said, shaking his head slowly.
“But you said you were going to.”
“And then I changed my mind.”
“Why?”
His eyes grew intense with emotions she could not name as he looked back at her.
“They would have taken you away from me.”
His voice shook, and his hands formed into fists. She saw the loneliness in his eyes. It was always there any time he let his walls down.
“Yes, but they would have gotten you the real Meghan. Your match.”
She hated that those words made her stomach turn.
“I don’t think so, I already have a wife.”
His look only grew in intensity, and she realized one of the emotions there was desire.
She swallowed.
“But I’m not your match. She is better suited for you. She’s the one you were supposed to marry.”
Again she felt uneasy saying those words.
He lowered his gaze to the floor.
“No match is one-hundred percent. Yet once a man is married he doesn’t continually apply just in case there is a better match somewhere out there. The point isn’t to find the most perfect match, but to find the person you will spend the rest of your life with. Once a Mudden man is married, he makes a lifelong commitment.”
Screw their stupid commitment, she thought, shoulders going rigid.
“They should make an exception for you. You didn’t know who you were marrying.”
“Maybe they would,” he said, lifting his head up to look at her again. “But I don’t want them to.”
Her chest tightened. “Altair, I—”
“I’m in love with you, Nova.”
Her heart thumped wildly, and blood rushed to her ears as his eyes bore into her waiting for her response.
But she couldn’t answer, she couldn’t think.
He stood up, a little bent over because of the rope holding him, and stepped closer to her.
