Chapter 38

EDEN POV

When he said somewhere far away, I didn’t presume that it included a boat ride off the UK and onto foreign lands, and another excruciatingly long but awesome ride with my head out of the sunroof singing to the songs played in the car.

But man was it exuberant.

I felt lighter on myself, the air felt fresher to breathe, and Riftan looked so carefree like the weight of the entire world had been lifted off his shoulders.

“You still haven’t mentioned where we are going.” I accused settling down into my seat with a pout before folding my arms across my chest. It was weird how we seemed to have just clicked out of nowhere even though we didn't see eye to eye from the beginning. A part of me believed that it was all thanks to the mate bond, while the other believed firmly that this whole mesh Unga of destinies and bloody prophecies drew us closer.

It was true that our fate was set on stone even before we breathed our first; yet I still hoped that somewhere deep within him, what he