Chapitre 54: Too Much Giving

~ HARTH ~

When Tarkyn had told her that the Anima shared their bodies freely, that he'd taken many females before, she'd been terrified at first—to her, that had meant his heart might have bonded to another, or others might have bonded with him, as had happened in the past for her Alpha, Zev. She'd seen the females waste away after learning the male that held their souls was bonded to another.

But Tarkyn had quickly helped her see that the bond didn't work that way for his people. And she'd been so relieved. In the moment she'd thought only about how relieved she was to have found him, and buried herself in that joy.

Buried her head, apparently.

Because it wasn't until this moment, right now, when the healer—who Harth had immediately liked and wanted to befriend—looked at him with that understanding in her gaze…