Rejected by my Mate, Chosen by his Enemy
Haydee
Cole did not defend himself, which was the first sign he had grown, and the second sign was that he was clearly, honestly lost.
"I do not know your sister," he said to Rhea, no arrogance in it, only a man reaching through his memory and finding nothing. "I swear it. I have had one fated mate in my life, and I threw her away on a ceremony floor, and I have spent every day since trying to become someone who would not. But I never had another mate. I never rejected a servant girl of Silvercrest. If I had, I would remember it, because I remember every wrong I ever did. They keep me awake."