CHAPTER 6
“I know I should be surprised, but I’m not. The thing is, they brought me back to my childhood.
They took me back to the time I was trying so hard to put behind me,” Zach said.
The grief Lake felt coming from Zach broke his heart. Gods, he had never meant to hurt Zach as he had inadvertently done. “I am so, so sorry, Zach. You will never know how much it hurts me to know that because of me, your life was made so hard.”
“You? What are you talking about?” Zach asked. Then Lake could see his mate was thinking...
replaying the words Lake had spoken. Soon he rasped, “It was you. It was you I saw all those times.”
Lake nodded, “Yes.”
Zach shook his head. “No. You said you found your mate. I am not your mate.”
Lake could hear the anger in Zach’s tone, but knew it was mor
