Chapter 41 Forty One

• As soon as Shawn asked that question, he realized how stupid he had been. How could he have been thinking of giving her up when she going through this pain? He knew the outcome of such a marriage; he was a child born from such a marriage, and he couldn’t imagine the pain any child from Alicia would have to go through. How could he have wanted to leave her with Leo, to sentence her to a life of pain when he could have easily given her the best life she could think of, when he could have easily loved her more than any man? What does it mean if she doesn’t love him? As much as he loved her, and with the mating mark, it would be enough for him. Just what kind of a saint was he, thinking he would give up his fated for a chosen mate?
• “Answer me, Alicia,” he asked. Her silence was killing him. He needed her to speak, to hear her voice, and to calm down. Deeply in his heart, he was happy, grateful that he couldn’t feel Storm. Honestly, fate works in mysterious ways; it was as if nature knew he would be finding out this news and so made him detach from his wolf. Storm would have gone berserk, Storm would have instantly claimed her, marking her and insisting she stay by his side. But it would have been wrong, it would have ruined Alicia’s reputation. He didn’t care about his.
• “Yes,” Alicia whispered, there was no use hiding it, he already found out, and besides, it was not like she could have hidden it forever.