AIDAN

No matter how much I called out to him in my mind, begged him to return, he didn’t obey.

Our differences were becoming more and more obvious.

Theo had been with me since I was born, unlike Vlad, who was gifted to me by the Goddess on my 18th birthday.

He was too powerful, with a will of his own, forged from the union of Centuria’s fire and the Winter Men’s ice.

He had always followed my will, accepted and loved Isabella as his own even though we weren’t magical soulmates.

I used to think