*Kael*

I had to remind myself that I barely knew my mate.

I had no idea how Gemma would handle grief. And if that’s what she wasn’t feeling right now, then I didn’t know how she handled the aftermath of a death. I just had to reassure her that she didn’t actually kill Connor. He did that himself.

We were all rocked by his last act. It kept replaying in my mind, but the more it did, the less real it seemed.

It was the same response I ...