Dargan's POV
“What do you mean?” Ashley asked, and I realized I’d spoken the words out loud. “He didn’t want to? Why wouldn’t he trust his mate?”
My knee-jerk reaction was to say something stupid or make a joke out of it. But then I realized that I wanted to spend my life with these women. The least I could do was open myself up to them and show them the man they were about to mate with.
If they chose so…
“My father used to tell me all about mates,” I said, feeling so uncomfortable confessing it, it felt like crickets were crawling all over my body. But if I didn’t do this – if I didn’t open up and gave my everything to my mates, then who would deserve me?
“How they were to be cherished and loved,” I continued, gulping hard. “But when I was 14, I walked in on my mother, in utter agony
