Chapter 39

• Anchored
• [Axel]
• She smiles at me and in that moment I can sense her forgiveness through the thin thread of a link that is starting to form between us. The mate link. If she accepts my mark, it will grow into a thick cord, a rope tying us together no matter how far apart we are. After Alexa and I broke things off, and she severed our bond by rejecting me fully, I thought I’d never see anything like it again. As I look at our connection through my wolf’s eyes, I see that from the bluntly cut ends of my previous bond, a new strand has sprouted. It is still thin, but it is there, reaching out to where it is anchored, deep within Rosalynd’s heart.