“I know what it feels like to think she deserves better,” I continued. “To think the bond made some kind of mistake. That if she could see everything inside you, really see it, she would step back.”
Liam said nothing.
But his breathing changed.
“I’ve done stupid s**t because of it,” I said. “More than you know.”
My mouth twisted.
“More than you want to know.”
That was true.
Liam knew maybe half of what I had been. Half of what I had done. Half of the ugly things I had let sit between me and my mate because it had been easier to hate myself than believe she could love me and mean it.
Perse had dragged me out of that with her bare hands and a mark on my neck. She did not wait for my permission to give that to me.
Nope.
All teeth and stubbornness.
Mostly stubbornness.
“She still c
