Page 144 of The Cruelest Undead

“I can hear him telling the other two men. He just told them he has a girlfriend. Not to mention, I scared him. I’m a monster to him, and that’s all I’ll ever be.”

He wiped that tear and put his arm around her shoulders.

Let me kill him. I don’t like how he’s making her cry,Rinnon admitted.

This will work out. Give it a chance. We can’t kill him because then, she will definitely lose him. At least now, there is a chance.

Fine.

Flynn knew how hard it was when you wanted your mate, and you couldn’t have them.

He’d been with Jolie without being able to be with Jolie. When you couldn’t be with your mate, it was soul crushing.

“Please set me free. I’d rather not exist than feel this agony. I thought losing Tobias hurt, but this…this is far worse.”

Flynn would do anything for their family, but he wouldn’t do that.

“I can’t do that, Cerise. I won’t help you destroy yourself. Your heart is hurting, but I can’t give you that peace. Once you carry that mark, it’s there forever. I can’t take it away.”

She just nodded.

“Okay.”

I can unmark her. She can go to death if she wants. Why would we force her?

We’re not forcing. We’re guiding. He’ll come around because if she’s his true mate, he won’t be able to stay away. How do you feel about Jolie?

Oh, they knew how he felt about her. He was feral. Only, he also had learned about loyalty and monogamy. It was a new concept, but apparently, Jolie expected it from the men in her life.

But he has a woman. It’s too late.

Flynn didn’t believe that. While Fate was a bitch, he believed things happened for a reason.

“Give him some time,” he suggested to Cerise. “This is new to him, and he needs to work through it.”

He remembered walking away from Jolie because she scared him. He still had the painting she’d left for him before he followed her toNew Orleans.

I’m still sorry I scared you.

Baby, it all worked out. Well, minus that freeloader I’m carting around inside me.

HEY!That’s demon-God-freeloader to you.

There was their woman’s laughter.

Cerise had no hope, and she hurt so much.

“It’s a good thing we’re going back to Paris when this is done,” she said. “I won’t have to ever see him again.”

Oh, Flynn knew that wouldn’t stop the pain. Once you found your mate, it was something you couldn’t fight forever—EVENif you were across the world.

The heart wanted what the heart wanted.

That was the bottom line.

He needed to know.

“Do you want me to send you home, so you don’t have to deal with him? Cami is at the lair. You can go there, and she’ll keep you company.”

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