Richard
I said it again, Jane was my mate. She was mine. I repeated it over and over so I wouldn’t let myself think otherwise.
I might have rejected her once, but that meant nothing now. I wanted her back, and I would have her back, no matter what it took.
I would crush anyone who dared to take her from me. The Goddess knew I wouldn’t spare them. I could not, and would not, trade her for anything.
If she even thought of replacing me, of involving herself with another man, I would kill him.
Just like that pathetic swindler she’d taken as a second mate. A lowlife with the audacity to challenge me and to hold my mate’s hand in my presence.
And then he had the gall to claim her boldly, even though he hadn’t marked her. No one had ever dared to defy me like that.
The fact that he came fr
