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"What are you thinking so deeply about?" he asked her softly

She looked down and saw that he had opened his eyes and atching her She blushed under his gaze She was pretty sure she would never get over so notice of her, mate or not "I am just sad for you You have so much on your shoulders and no one to bear it with you"

"I have you," he told her as he reached up and ran his fingers across her cheek

"But I cannot be with you, not really"

"Just knowing you are here waiting for h for now, Mina"

As she stared down at hi their bond up even more so that she could see his memories She smiled at the memory of the first time he had seen her To hiht in which she had never iined herself, and it warmed her to knoas so attracted to her She saw his pain over the memories of his father, and before he could sensor it she saw hisin her hand and felt Vasile’s sorrow

"What was that?" she asked breathless fro out of him

He sat up abruptly and ran his hands over his face She could tell that he did not want to talk about it, and yet he wanted her to know because he wanted her to know all of him

"My parents were not who they appeared to be," he began

Vasile let out a deep breath as he began to tell his true mate about his parents He was ee hientle soul, and if anyone could understand what he was going through, it would be her She listened to hi to understand that he needed to get it all out Like a daory details And even though it was brutal to relive, when he finally finished, he felt as if a thousand pounds that he did not even realize he had been carrying had been lifted off of his chest His heart was still pounding in his chest fro his father a bloody mess by his own hand If he had ever wanted to wipe his es, he could not reathered her into his ar silently, his little Luna, broken for hi to block her eer at his parents for putting hi loved a , and pain for his father at having slowly gone ardless of the love his h

"Do not waste your precious tears on me, beloved," he whispered to her "It is a sad story, but it was their choice and only they are responsible"

"That may be," she said around quiet sobs "But they…left you…to deal with the consequences" Her words were interrupted by the rapid breaths caused by her tears