ROMAN.
“Dead. She took her own life because she couldn’t handle a broken mate-bond.”
That would explain why Octavia was alone. I couldn’t imagine how hard it would be to lose one parent, let alone both of them. How much pain had my mate been forced to endure? That had my heart clenching and Creed letting out a whine at the thought of her facing it all alone. Hopefully, she had others in her corner, ones that she could rely on for support and encouragement.
“I wonder how much of that is true,” I mused aloud.
He was immediately offended. I barely contained the smirk that wanted to break free because of the fury that rolled over him and off of him in waves.
I wasn’t unaccustomed to dealing with people like Alpha Richard. The pompous, holier-than-thou attitude of his showed me that he
