“Think about it,” she suggests gently. “Put your anger and hurt aside, and really consider it with that lawyer brain of yours. What was so precious to Darian that his desire to protect it would make him willingly tie himself down to someone like Willow?”
She gives me a pointed look, and I make a face. “No.”
“Yes.” Mary shakes her head. “I’m not siding with him because he means anything to me, Alice. But you cannot ignore the facts. His behavior with Willow over these past seven years, the switch in behavior during the mating gathering… Willow must have been holding something over his head, and I bet it was related to you.”
I stare at her, trying to process her words. “I’m sorry, but do have temporary amnesia, Mary? What he did to me—Have you forgotten it all? Even if… I mean, let’s say
