The word that falls from Mack’s lips breaks my heart. It feels like my heart is shattering into pieces so small there’s no hope of anyone putting them back together again. And the pain… all I want to do is curl up in a ball and cry forever. I’d accepted that Mack had a fated mate somewhere out in the world and that one day she might appear. I warned him it was something that could happen, but I never expected, never dreamed, that the universe would choose our mating ceremony to send her to him. After everything I went through with Shane, this was supposed to be the start of something new, not the beginning of another nightmare. As I take in the mysterious red-headed woman’s flushed cheeks and the unmistakable bloom of new love in her green eyes, the gratitude pouring through me that Ma

