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“What... What just happened?”
Evidently, in my horrified shock, I’d said the words out loud without realizing it. Because Gahn Fallo’s obnoxious reply rang in my ears.
“You flailed and you fell,” he said. I jerked my head, looking up at him from my knees. I sneered at his look of vicious glee.
“You Gahns have somehow poisoned her mind against me!” I grunted, pulling once again against their hands.
“They haven’t.”
I stopped fighting, surprised to hear a high, clear voice now instead of the deep growls of the Gahns. Three small, strange women stood before me. They’d been with her – my mate – a moment ago. But I’d been so focused on my mate’s face that I hadn’t really taken notice of them.
The one speaking had hair similar in colour to my mate’s. She also had strange markings on her skin.Perhaps scars?
“No one poisoned her mind. It’s true. We don’t feel the mate bond.”
My lungs heaved with harsh breaths. My brains churned in my skull. My heart contracted in my chest, as if dealt a death blow.
Fallo’s words from a moment ago echoed.
She feels nothing for you.
I thought I knew agony before.
But that wasnothing.Nothing to the complete collapse of my entire world.
I waited for her for so long... I want her more than I want my next breath.
Yet she does not want me?
“I do not envy you, Gahn Errok,” said Razek.
I wanted to fire back at him, at all of them. Tell them that they were weak fools and that I could never envy any of them.
But... I did.
Curse me, I did. I envied these irritating desert Gahns. They’d claimed their mates.
And so had Lerokan. My little brother.
The shame was almost as bad as the hurt of it all.
Almost.
I’d always been the strongest among my tribe. The biggest and the fastest. Fearless and regal and powerful. That power had never once failed me.
Until now.
What did it mean, if nothing she saw in me, nothing I had to offer, was enough?
That thought blackened my insides, turned to poison in my guts.
“We will let go of you-”
“We will?” Fallo cut in, interrupting Buroudei.
“We will let go of you,” Buroudei continued, “if you promise not to chase after her. She has made her choice, at least for tonight. There are guards outside the new women’s tent, not to mention all the warriors here at the fire. Even with your mount, and your spears –arrows– you will never get through us all.”
“Plus, you’d have to go throughus,” said another new woman, this one crossing her brown arms and glaring at me.
