SHADOW OF DECEPTION

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e ever came back?"I was feeling a great deal of hurt from his actions that I had surpressed but talking to him right now is bringing everything back.He cupped my shoulders. "Never. Look, I can't explain it but I'm sure you feel it too..." he waved a hand back and forth. "This thing...between us?""And what if I do?! That doesn't change the fact that you get mated that you're getting mated in a couple of months!"Ethan equally looked lost, grasping at straws.He was right. I did feel the instant connection, the spark between us but it wasn't my fault that he was committed to someone else."What if it's not what I want?" He blurts out of the blue. His hands had fallen off mine during our conversation, and now he was pacing around."What does that mean?" I was confused."When you spoke to me the first day that you woke up, you talked to me about feeling trapped in your former pack both physically and mentally." He stopped facing me, looking into my eyes. "I feel trapped too."I didn't say anything for the next couple of seconds, waiting for him to buttress or at least make sense of his words but he didn't. "Is this some sort of sick, twisted joke that I'm supposed to believe?" I scoffed. "You really feel trapped in here? Tell me, what makes you feel trapped?" My eyes narrowed. "Is it the servants pandering to your every need or is it the copious amounts of cars and lands you have in your name or is it the fact that you're a big, bad Alpha?!" I screamed the last one out, hitting my fists in his chest.What did he take me for, a fool?There is no way he would compare years if not decades of suffering to what he experiences and call it the same thing.Ethan grabbed my tiny fists, pushing them away from his body. "Candace, yo