Elsa
"It was a futile mission; he wouldn’t have succeeded," Kane said, his voice steady but filled with quiet insistence. He stepped closer, his gaze meeting mine with a mixture of understanding and firmness. "You have a mate now. The goddess forbid you are ever separated from him. You’d go nuts, Elsa. It happens to every wolf. Your father wasn’t thinking straight anymore. He was almost feral, and he would have killed himself if things had gone on much longer."
I swallowed hard, his words cutting through my anger in a way I hadn’t expected. Kane continued, his tone softer but no less resolute. "We’ve ended the Baron, Elsa. She took everything—don’t let her take your father from you too."
I glanced at my father, his eyes filled with a mixture of regret and desperation. The weight of Kane
