Zane
The mate bond pulls at me. I fight it. I should let Magdalena kill her—that’s what she deserves. I save her life from my wolves, and still she does this. The wolves are my responsibility; I have to keep them safe, and if she’s hell-bent on attacking us, then she’ll have to die. Mate or not. But the mate bond overwhelms me. Instinctively, I have to protect her.
“Stop,” I command, gripping Magdalena’s wrist and pulling her back down. “I’ll handle her.”
Hesitating, she glares at me. “The last time you said you’d handle her, and now look what happened. Maybe I should be the one to handle her.”
She sparks the rage in me. “How dare you question me?” I snap.
Although she’s right, I should have handled Katarina myself from the first day we met. But fate had a different plan, making her my mate. Even though I know it complicates everything, I should kill her.
Am I only making excuses to keep her alive?
I could end her right here, right now, and watch Augustine’s pathetic face as he grieve
