Rejected Fate

Seeing Kaelen stand there so completely unguarded thawed a small piece of my chest, while every other part of me turned straight to granite.

"Thalia, please—" he started to say.

I threw a hand up to cut him off, fighting to keep the anger boiling under my skin from spilling over into my voice. "Stop right there. You gave up the right to lay any claim to me years ago."

His wide shoulders dropped