I wiped my face as he whirled to face Shannon. Her eyes burned and I could smell her devastation. “How could you?” Her words seem to hit him like physical blows. She turned to me, but I held up my hands.
“Don’t look at me like that.” I called to her, and she fumed. “I told him he had to make everything very clear before our mating ceremony.”
Brandon spun to face me, anger and something else I couldn’t pinpoint on his face. But it was Shannon’s choking that had him spinning back. “Your mating ceremony?” She looked between us. “You two are holding the ceremony still?” She stumbled back a step before her eyes raged. “Is that true?”
Brandon looked back and forth between us, and he settled on me, pleading. “Amy…”
I laughed. “I knew it.” I scowled at him. “If you love her, then mate her and
