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“She’ll run,” my mother warns me.
“I know, but none of you move,” I tell them, and I cut the link. Gripping the door handle, I shove the door open and step outside into the harsh bite of the wind. Looking back inside the manor, everyone remains frozen in place, all eyes on Temperance.
“So, are you leaving?” I ask her. The moment the words leave my mouth, she is out the door. I hear the door close as someone shuts it, but instead of chasing her, I follow slowly. She runs for the forest instantly, and I cross the fields following, wondering where on earth she thinks she is going when she stops on the tree edge. She stares up at the huge, dark forest, which gives me the creeps. I can tell by Shadow’s demeanor, she can sense something is wrong with the forest here, yet can’t quite place what it is.
Sitting down, I feel my wolf come forward, he’s on edge, not wanting me to lose our mate. “It’s a witch's graveyard!” I call out to her, and she freezes. Shadow turns slowly, her eyes darting nervously toward the manor when she notices it is only me.
“Why do you keep the bond from Temperance?” I ask her, not giving her too long to think about whether to attack me or not.
For a long while, she walks the forest edge, ignoring my question. “That forest is dense, cursed in my opinion, if you want to leave, tell me where to take you, and I will drive you.”
Shadow pauses, glancing at me. “Why?” she asks suddenly.
My brows lift, yet I answer her anyway. “Because you’re not my prisoner,” I tell her
“You lied,” she replies.
“About what?” I ask her, wondering which lie I told.
“You promised to keep her safe, you left her!” she says bitterly. I shake my head at her words.
“I never left her, I was still there kind of, I went to the underworld with Kaif trying to find answers about what she is,” I answer. Temperance eyes glow and I can tell Shadow is thinking of my words, trying to sense the lie within them.
“We don’t belong here,” she finally says.
“Then where do you belong?” I ask her, and that question seems to confuse her more. She growls, turning toward the manor, assessing the road she has now just noticed she ran past. “You can run out there if you must, but are you really protecting Temperance?” I ask her. She pauses once again.
“I’m the only one that protects her!” she screams furiously. “They hate me, they all hate me, especially Nova. But I am the one who kept her safe!” Shadow spits at me venomously.
“You don’t need to keep her safe from me, you can rest now,” I tell her. She laughs, the sound is haunting and makes my teeth ache.
“And let you break them more? Pick up the pieces when you’re done with her?” she asks.
“I am not Satish,” I remind her. “But Satish is out there somewhere, she is safest with me, with my family where we have the power to take him down, it’d be a suicide if he stepped foot here.”
However, the next question shocks me. “Will you mate her?” she asks me.
“Excuse me?” I ask her.
“Fuck her, do you plan on fucking her?” Shadow asks so crudely, it throws me off guard.
“That will be inevitable once she goes into heat, but I won’t hurt her, nor would I force her,” I tell her.
“I won’t let you,” she warns me.
“I get that you want to protect Temperance, but you’d only be hurting her by preventing that during her heat,” I remind her. She stares at me for a second.
“You will give her the serum.” Shadow states. My brows crease in confusion further.
“What are you talking about?” I ask her.
“The heat serum, so you can impregnate her!” she screams at me. “Nova couldn’t do it, she could never do it, that is why she hates me. But I am sick of doing it, I am sick of being the one to do it!” she screams.
“I won’t let you, I won’t let you,” she shakes her head, clutching handfuls of hair when it clicks into place for me. Nova suffered the abuse handed down by her brother’s pack. Shadow endured and suffered the abuse of her brother, forcing her heat.
“Satish forced you to mate with him?” I ask her in horror, and she cringes at my words. “Did he ever tell you why?” I ask her.
Some parts of me hate having to ask these questions because I know it causes her pain reliving them. Another part hates hearing the filthy things done to her, yet I can’t help them if I don’t know what his agenda was.I will kill this man.
