Nadia
I kept to myself for the rest of the day. I didn’t want to humiliate myself in front of Vincent any further – or have anything interrupt my long bout of self-pity.
Still, if anyone had ever earned the right to feel bad about themselves, I thought ruefully to myself that night, surely it’s somebody who’s had two fated mates in a row that don’t want her.
I tossed and turned miserably in my bed for hours. Finally, I gave up on sleep. I was too overwhelmed by emotion to keep trying. But at least now I knew something that could help with that.
I slipped out of bed and crept through the darkened villa to the training facility. The exercise and sparring rooms were empty, just as I’d expected, and the open door to the attached bathing facility showed only darkness.
Alone, I began
