Gideon’s POV
I should have felt deliriously happy at finding my true mate, and for day or so, I was. But somehow when I embraced Dierdra, it didn’t feel right.
When I kissed her, I found myself comparing it to the Full Mating Moon with the girl in the woods. That night had been electric and life-changing, yet our kisses now had none of that chemistry.
I had been hunting for this woman for weeks, thinking she was the other half of my soul, but when I was with her my thoughts were elsewhere. When I embraced her, Dierdra didn’t fit against me the way that girl had.
If it wasn’t for my bite mark on her, I would have thought she was a stranger.
I had expected that, when I found my mate again, we would fall easily into that intoxicating mating rush and I would receive her mark in return
