The Reason

I have heard the mate bond described many times in my life. My older cousin told me that it was like filling a hole you never knew was there - like you've been an unfinished puzzle your whole life and the final piece was clicking into place.

There was no hole. Instead, there was elastic bands that stretched from me to him, one thousand pressure points gluing us together. A new branch of my being, standing a few feet away.

"It's you," he breathed. I saw myself in his eyes; small kisses and lazy mornings, dark rooms for dark secrets, breathless, stolen kisses in hall closets.

"Oh, dear."

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Elies was too much of an idealist to be an asexual aromantic in a world of possessive and hypersexual mate bonds. Miles Grant, Alpha and representative for all werewolves, had the eyes of the mythical and normal world staring him down and could not falter in the face of tradition. Battling expectation, sabotage, and existential, internalized, dramatic self-hatred, Miles and El struggled desperately to find each other when everything is working against them. But all mates are chosen for a reason, right?

. . .right?

WARNING: VERY NON SEXUAL CONTENT.

This is a part of my book collection, Army of Aces, where I write a book in each genre featuring an asexual main character. This will be the first addition to this collection.