Rowan
I stood there in silence, wondering if I should open the floodgates and spill everything. I wanted to. I didn't want to hide Elizabeth. I never wanted to hide her like she was some kind of dirty little secret. In fact, I wanted to show the entire world that she was my mate. Show them that she was mine and mine to protect.
But I knew that doing that could go one of two ways. It could offer her a world of protection and love and wealth that she had never experienced before, or it could paint a target on her back so large that my enemies would use her to get to me. Not just enemies either, but my parents too.
I needed to get to the bottom of their hatred. I needed to understand why they chose her as a target and why they continued to lash out at her for every little thing. Even somet
