Gerald POV
"Hannah, you are my second chance at love and a fated bond. I had a beloved for a long time and I truly believed that she and I would be together until my last breath, but she had other plans." Something flashes in her eyes and I can see she is ready to run. "Hannah, do not run from me. No matter what happened before you, the moment I looked into your eyes in the queen's office I knew you were my future."
"How can you say that? You just said you were with her for a long time. Obviously, you loved her for a long time. Was she a witch? What happened to her," she asks, a mixture of fear and sadness in her voice.
Before she can stop me, I take her hand into mine. She drops her gaze to the ground but makes no move to pull away from me. "It wasn't until recently, after being mate
