Lucian
My father was serious. He wanted Martha gone.
And while I couldn’t blame him, I couldn’t ignore the ache in my chest either. The man was too young to live alone. Too bound to a woman he no longer loved. As long as she lived, he couldn’t bond with anyone else. That was the curse of the mate link—it tethered you to someone, even when love was long dead.
Martha had wrecked everything. She thought seduction could patch the hole she tore through our lives. She dressed up in lace and silk like it still held power. But her problem wasn’t in her looks—it was her poison personality. If her heart matched her face, my father would have hit the jackpot. Instead, he ended up with a woman who burned everything she touched.
I hoped she would finally give Darian the truth about Alaric. We neede
