“You weren’t in your right mind. You were hurting yourself.”
She hisses. “I would have survived.”
“Bonnie,” I say softly, drawing her attention. “We did it because you are ours. We’ll stay together, be together always.” I smile at her, trying to coax her out of this bad mood.
She throws a knife at my head. I wisely get out of the way.
Rory gets his arms around her while she’s distracted looking for more weapons, but she cracks her head back into his. His arms loosen, and he stumbles back, dazed.
“You bonded me!” She screams, and her rage changes to something more heartbreaking. “You left me, and now you’re back, and you bonded me.”
Oh.
I rush to her before she can do anything, but this time, I don’t try to touch her; I just duck down until my face is right in front ofhers.
“We left you.”
She sobs.
“We rejected you.”
She shudders.
“Bonnie, we made a very, very stupid mistake, and we’re not the same alphas. We’re not going to leave you.”
She dissolves into tears.
“I don’t know why I’m crying. It's not you or your stupid, meaningless words,” she snarls.
“I know. It’s because your body is exhausted, and you're all messed up. You just need some food, liquids, and some sleep.”
She glowers at me. “You made a mistake?”
“Yes,” I say. “We made an awful, terrible mistake, and we let people hurt you. But we’re trying to fix it.”
She lifts those big grass-green eyes to me, all glossy from tears and pain. “How?”
“Well, the first thing is taking care of you, and then there’s destroying everyone who even looks at you the wrong way. I’m impressed with your knife work. Can you teach me?”
She chuckles wetly.
I slide my phone out of my pocket and open up the email and hold it out to her. She reads through it.
“What is this?”
“This is confirmation from our lawyers that they will be going after the reporters who harassed you yesterday.”
She stares up at me. “You really came back?”
“We really did.”
“You aren’t going to leave?”
“No, Bonnie. I have your bonds. I’m not going anywhere.”
She slumps and sways dangerously. I toss my phone to Vale, who snags it out of the air, and catch her, lifting her into my arms.
“I’m okay, just dizzy.”
