Adrian's POV
The guilt was eating me alive as I watched Aurelia face off against the Kane brothers. Every word she'd said about being lied to, about being treated like a prize, felt like a knife twisting in my chest. Because she was right – we had lied to her. We'd made her believe the Kane brothers forced us into that bet when the truth was so much worse.
We were the ones who proposed it,I thought, my stomach churning with self-loathing. We wanted to spite them, to prove we could take their precious mate away from them.
The memory of that conversation with my brothers played in my head like a broken record. We'd been so angry after watching the Kane brothers parade Aurelia around like their property, so determined to show them they couldn't control everything. The bet had seemed like
