Starr
“Kai didn’t do it, Mom.” I stop pacing the floor of my room and turn to face my mother. “He didn’t do it, Mommy. Something isn’t right. I’ve been racking my brain, but I can’t find anything.”
“Baby, you saw him with your own two eyes, Starr. Your eyes were not playing tricks on you. Ricon saw him too.”
She’s right, we did, but that man was not my mate. Kai would never have done what they are accusing him of; I just know it. The man I love is kind and compassionate; what he did for Ciska is proof of that. Kai would never kill anyone without a fair trial. Unless we were being attacked, of course, but that’s different.
“I saw a man who looked like Kai. But, Mom, that man wasn’t my mate.”
“How can you be so sure?”
I smile slightly. “Because he’s my mate. No one knows Kai the way I
