West POV
West was ready to beat the living hell out of T.J., Jo-anne was telling him she had come back for no-one but him, had the choice to die or come back, and came back only because T.J. had been stripped of his Goddess-Gifted Mate, when she was born; to be her protector, it was already killing her to know her life had done this to him.
He could see how much she hated this knowledge, when she had come back, she had ripped right into herself and him, to try and get that mark off of her and him, so distressed the minute she had woken up about it, and now here he was compounding on her pain.
He had been completely shocked into silence at first, hearing that their own Goddess had stripped T.J. of his Mate for this to work, he’d been four when she’d been born, and he’d already been gran
