I stood up from the bed, pacing the hardwood floor, the fury of two years of forced silence boiling over. “She cut ties with me for two years because of you. For a guy she barely knew—just because you were her mate, because she was naive enough to believe in that bond and in your non-existing honor. I spent twenty-four months watching her crumble from afar because of your negligence. I spent an entire night in a hospital while surgeons screwed her bones back together and pulled liquid silver out of her blood because you couldn’t help run back to your brother’s wife”.
I paused, my chest heaving, the image of Kat’s pale face in that hospital bed burning into my mind. “And even after all of that, she still defended you. She looked at me and asked me to bring her back to you. Not once she sp
