"I know I've been an idiot. I know what I did deserves your disdain, but please, at least let me tell you why I made those bad decisions. My love, let me explain. I never wanted to take advantage of your innocence, little one. I never thought of fleeing from our bond, not ever again."

Elijah, with a dull pain in his chest, tried to approach again, but Ophelia stepped back, too close to the edge, and that terrified him, so he remained still.

"My father, when he remarried, did it with an Omega, s