DAMIEN'S POV
I had not slept.
Not one hour
Not one minute.
I had lain in my bed in the Alpha quarters the largest, finest room in the entire Ironveil Pack, with its high ceilings and its stone fireplace and its view of the whole territory and I had stared at the ceiling while Rex dismantled me from the inside out.
*You saw them,* Rex said.
He had been saying it since I got back. Over and over. A wound he kept pressing.
*Stop,* I told him.
*You saw his hand on her face.*
*Rex*
*You stood in the dark and you watched another male touch our mate and you did nothing.* His voice was shaking with fury. Not at Kael. At me. *You did nothing Damien. You just stood there.*
*She is not our mate,* I said. *I made sure of that.*
The silence that followed was the loudest thing I had ever hea
