Page 14 of Betrayed Alpha Mate

Not like I let her slip away from me before.

“I think there’s only one obvious solution,” I say with a firm tone, and everyone turns to me. Standing tall, bold, and certain—perhaps because of the binding spell that’s forcing me to see only one clear path—my eyes go to Emily.

She lifts her head slowly, eyes disoriented as she meets mine. Perhaps it’s her sadness, that desolate look of defeat in her blue eyes, that has me agreeing with my inner wolf.

“If there’s no time to figure out a way to break the spell, and if Emily needs me to unlock her powers, then I think it’s pretty obvious. Emily and I will get married.”

Silence falls over the room, but it’s only Emily’s reaction that I’m concerned about.

And she is spooked again.

Chapter 4 - Emily

My ears drum with the deafening silence that’s fallen over the room, and I can feel everyone holding their breath.

“Emily and I will get married.”

Is he insane?

“Are you insane?” I blurt out, too stunned to hold back anyway.

As I blink, still reeling in shock, Delilah suddenly steps between Sean and me.

“He has a point, Em. I think it could actually work,” she says, trying to convince me. “I get it, you can’t marry him based on a mistaken bond like this, but it’s the only way you can unlock your powers in the meantime.”

My heart skips a beat and plummets to my stomach, where it twists and knots and makes me feel like I’m going to be sick.

They have no idea that we already share a fated mate bond—one that had been broken the moment Sean spewed those horrible words that night. Now, I’m supposed to marry the man who broke my heart? The man I hate?

“Isn’t there another way?” I plead with Delilah, but she shakes her head.

“Not unless you wait until we find a way to undo it,” Arianna replies. “Who knows how long it’ll take? And that will just delay your magic.”

Delay my magic?

I’ve been impatient so far. How am I supposed to wait even longer?

“And what did you say happens if I use my powers while he’s under this spell?”

Arianna takes a deep breath. “The bond will become stronger.”

Sinking into myself as I lean back, my heart breaks for the second time in my life.

How could I be so stupid as not to read that page properly?

“The magic will be unlocked.”

But it wasn’t the kind of magic I was hoping for. It was the kind that has Sean suggesting we get married.

He really has gone crazy, and it’s all my fault.

Ugh!

“Think about it, Em,” Sean says as he grabs a chair and pulls it up in front of me, then takes a seat like an eager, loyal golden retriever ready to be at my beck and call.

Oh no…

What have I done?