Everything makes sense now. The reason Sparrow hadn’t walked with them to the village, her change in behavior, and her distant behavior when Marcus left them.

“You’re my brother’s mate,” Selene says matter-of-factly.

“And that’s why you ordered me to stand down,” Onyx adds.

Sparrow looks down at her plate. “I didn’t want to, and I know I shouldn’t have, but my emotions were all over the place,” she says while looking up at the ...