The morning after the bonding ceremony, Aurora woke with absolutely no intention of spending another day doing anything except returning to the settlement and getting back to work.
She had already spent weeks planning the academy, the roads, the farms, the livestock area, the bridges, and the countless other things she wanted to introduce, and now that Zale had officially become her husband, she assumed they would simply return home after waking up and continue where they had left off.
Unfortunately, she had apparently forgotten one very important lesson she should have learned after four previous bonding ceremonies - her men became considerably more possessive after officially bonding with her. She had experienced it with Asher, Elixir, Kellen, and Reis, yet somehow she had convinced herself that Zale would behave differently. She couldn't have been more wrong.
