Fate doesn't bend. That's the rule. Or at least it was the rule, up until Gavriel Sterling.
The ancestors had said he would change fate months ago, but at the time, Rook did not understand what they meant. But when Gavriel woke from his coma two days ago and saw Serena, Rook finally understood.
There are matebonds that are given. There are matebonds that are chosen. But in one single case, a matebond had been earned.
Three lifetimes. Three versions of himself. Three chances to love someone else, someone easier, someone who wasn't already claimed. He chose her. Every. Single. Time. In his first two lifetimes, he chose to step back and suffer in silence to protect her. In this lifetime, he had made that choice again after giving her the truth.
The matebond Gavriel Sterling had been feeling with Serena was not from the mark on his shoulder. A female mark does not create a matebond, only a male mark can do that. What he was feeling had been fate, not biology.
