Claire’s POV
If I really wanted Gideon’s help, and I did, then I knew I needed to sit down with him and actually talk about what was going on. Rather than run away, as I have been doing, I needed to sit with him and talk these things through, to tell him about Ivan’s suspicions about what happened to my mother, and that I wanted to learn the truth.
My feelings for Gideon were a jumbled mess, and it made approaching him about anything twenty times more difficult than it needed to be. Ever since feeling the jolt of the mating bond, which had since been quietly thrumming in the back of my mind, I got jittery feelings around Gideon.
Even with our past, even with everything, being near him made me as nervous as a schoolgirl with a crush.
But my quest for truth was more important than hiding
