"Tell me the truth, Lily. I'm not asking out of curiosity. I know there is a past between the two of you, one that existed long before I ever came into your life ànd I have chosen to stay quiet about it. I remember the Annual Mating Bond back in Silverdale when I tried to claim you and make you mine, he stepped between us not as a leader or the next Alpha, but as a jealous lover who refused to be outdone and lose the woman he wanted. He even told me you were his mate too." His voice cracked, and I saw it all, the insecurity, the fear, the deep, aching sorrow he had been carrying in silence all this time. It broke my heart to see him this way. So lost, so uncertain and so deeply and painfully afraid. I wanted to reach for him, to hold him, to tell him none of it mattered, that he was the only one I had ever truly loved but I stood frozen, my own heart turning cold, tears stinging my eyes as I watched the man I loved unravel before me."He was my mate too. I do not
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