“Then how are you a virgin?” Lorne asked, his voice bewildered.
Risking it, I met his gaze. “I didn’t allow us to complete the mating,” I whispered. “Instead we, I mean, we just…”
I brushed a finger over my lips, my face burning hot, and Lorne’s eyes widened with comprehension, his face turning as red as mine.
“Kiera, you have to tell him.”
“I know. I will,” I promised him. That was, if Brennan ever chose to come near me again. “I just didn’t know how to tell him. How to you inform someone that the entire reason he was wed, that he was even in the position to mark me and make me his chosen mate was because of something that didn’t actually happen. Despite everything, I don’t want him to hate me. We’re even more tied together now than ever before, and all of it is based on a lie.”
Lorn
