“Last time at Stella’s villa, Jayden said a few words that angered Preston. This time in the hospital room, in a place where you couldn’t see or hear, Jayden might have said something unpleasant. Otherwise, it was just a sentence asking him to attend the mating ceremony, and Preston got so angry that he resorted to violence. It doesn’t make sense.”

Taya’s words gradually calmed Harper’s restless heart.

She quieted down and carefully thought about it, and it seemed to be ...