"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, she..."

"I don't care! Do you understand? I'm not interested anymore in what you have to say!" she yelled at him, full of rage.

"Because I have the memories here, in my mind, they came back to me, and I saw when my father asked you if you would fight for me, and you ran away like the coward you are!"

"Even our meeting was by accident. You never sought me out, Elijah. You never did!"

"I always knew about you; I never forgot you. You've been the only one for me, in my heart. I just didn't want to g