River's POV
My heart is pounding in my chest, I have never opened up to anyone about this before it was something that weighed heavy on mine and Coles's shoulders.
Taking a deep breath, I let the story of my past flow out of me, I won’t hold back from her. “When my brother and I were ten dark mages attacked our village.
They burned all the houses down except ours. My dad left to join the fight against them even despite my mother begging him to stay with us he left and never came back.
We knew he must have died in the battle. My mother was broken inconsolable from the loss of her mate. A few days later the seer of our village came by to speak with my mother about something that had come to her the night before.
My mother was furious about what she had said my brother wa
