digging up old wounds

Gemma wanted to tongue-lash Mara for trying to order them around. Still, the look in Sebastian's eyes reminded her suddenly that the pathetic human was his said mate.

She was mated to Silas and knew very well how that felt, and she could feel Sebastian's pain at rejecting the one the gods had given him.

The gods were cruel, however, to have played him so with such an excuse for a mate.

She had a growing suspicion now more than ever for the girl. Before, it was mere dislike at the fact that she was human and Grimshaw wanted her leading to the deaths of werewolves and humans alike, but now it increased to suspicion of sorcery.

She never knew Esmeralda, but from the stories she had heard about her, and what had happened between them, she feared for Sebastian that he might fall into the wrong hands again. That was everyone's fear, but despite her ordinary nature, Gemma found Mara too good to be true.

Sebastian could not believe that woman at all. They were werewolves, after all, a