*Arealla*

“I lost a mate,” he answered simply. “I was hurt that you weren’t mine. That you weren’t my mate. Because I did truly love you.”

I almost called him a liar. But then I thought back to what Liana had told me a while ago. She had been speaking about Marcus at the time, telling me how rare a true mate bond was. And how I should value it, how Marcus was trying to be grateful for a gift that he was given, that was behaving more like a ...