Chapter 44

Valeria’s POV

I walked through the hallway as my legs hurt from the impact of what he just did to me, and when I got to the room, I fell onto the bed as tears slipped freely from my cheeks. My whole body trembled, not from cold—but from pain, from betrayal, from the unbearable weight of what had just happened.

He didn’t know.

He didn’t know we were mates.

But that didn’t make it hurt any less.

I c