----Saul POV----
“You know what was curious about it? When she was executed, I couldn’t feel a thing. But every now and then since that day, I’ve felt the same pain I used to feel during her indiscretions with the King—like ghostly echoes, rippling through time. I think that when your mate dies, you don’t feel the pain all at once. Instead, it strikes you in bouts, like relentless waves, again and again—until the end of time. It seems an unbearably high price to pay for a mate who was rejected but never accepted it.”
“That is curious. I’ve never met a rejected mate, let alone one whose mate died after the rejection. I don’t even think Edward knows such a case exists,” I said, turning my gaze to the man seated across from me.
Kane didn’t speak. He simply shook his head in response to my
