"Rhea is my mate."
The words hit me harder than any blow Sora had landed.
My heart stopped. For a second, I forgot how to breathe. I stayed frozen in his arms, my eyes wide and fixed on nothing.
Mate?
The word felt like a lie in my head, it left a disgusting aftertaste in my mouth. This was the man who had left me after our night together, the man who'd told Vane all of those disgusting things about me. He was the reason Vane had thrown me into that dungeon and he had disappeared on me.
Now, he was saying we were mates? How could we be mates and I wouldn't know? My wolf might be latent but if she recognized his wolf, she'd have told me.
I wanted to scream. I wanted to pull away and demand to know why he had let me suffer if he knew. Every cold look, every mean word, every time he h
