Adrian looked at Miranda and was touched. The world was cruel. Life was not fair at all, he thought. Fate was cruel. The mate he loved and wanted desperately didn't want him any more and with good cause' and the one he could never love and want the way she would have wanted him to, was insanely in love with him and seemed to need him desperately, to the extent of wanting to go into a loveless relationship with him, putting herself at a disadvantage with the compromise she was willing to ...