Thirty-eight: Prince Raoul Conan found me in the war room. I was talking with father, trying to come up with a solution for Crimson having gone missing. Or at least that was what everyone believed that I was doing. No one knew everything that I had done to arrange it to make it look like Crimson had gone missing. Or to make it look like she was supposed to be my Mate. There was a secret that no one knew about witches. One that we tried to keep secret as well. Which was that a witch was strong enough to be the mate of a werewolf. But they could choose their own. The magic they had in their veins that made mating with one possible but for a mating bond to take place they had to choose it. We circulated the story about curses ourself, using Overseer Sorina and the Devils L

