Wendy's POV

The gentle words of that woman weighed heavily on my heart as Aidan had made no move to dismiss her.

Worse, Aidan's Beta, Dorian, had arrived alongside her.

"That woman—I don't think I've seen her before," Cassie murmured thoughtfully.

An inexplicable tension coursed through me, an anxious urgency to uncover the nature of her connection to Aidan.

Was she his mate? Had he marked this woman as ...