"w...what did you say?" she had asked, her voice shaking as if afraid to speak or listen to what I had just said.
The look in her eyes was one of desolation.
despair.
disbelief.
When she had first heard my voice, I could see the excitement and light in her eyes. One that said her backer was here.
You wait, Kate… my mate will speak for me.
But after I spoke, siding with Kate against my own mate… the one I was supposed to protect…
the one I was supposed to defend even if she was wrong…
"What are you doing?"
"Are you out of your mind?" Argon protested in anger.
But instead of backing down, I continued. I couldn’t stop now, and I was doing this for her own good.
To protect her, I told myself.
"Are you saying they are all lying and ganging up on you?" I questioned.
"What…?"
"You d
