Cassian POV

I had never known fury like this not in all my years. For the past week, it had burned inside me, a wildfire that refused to be tamed. The pain at my mating mark was relentless, like molten metal pressed against flesh, striking when I least expected it. One moment I’d be mid-sentence in a meeting, the next, searing agony would lance through my side, setting my blood on fire.

Why, Dravina?

Why would she do this to me?

I had never betrayed her. Not once. Not in action, not in ...