"What if she..." She found herself unable to complete the sentence.

"What if she is unable to say her goodbyes to me?" he asked, somehow knowing exactly what Bae could not utter.

Each of her mother's mates were dying. Her Cankurian mate, Arlo, Kael's father, had already died and Arvin would be the next to go. His time would not be long now that Bae had claimed her own Laoshian mate. Without their mate, their final duty was to witness the transference of power and then they ...