Forced To Be His Bride. Fated To Be His Mate.
There was no way my mother would willingly do it, so why?
“You have to believe me, Denali,” she says, reaching out and grabbing my hands while a tear falls down her face. “I was told that Elise didn’t make it.”
Didn’t make it. Her words hit me like a ton of bricks, and I tried to make sense of why someone would say that a child died. Was it my father who did this? Or was there someone else working behind the scenes?
“I was devastated, and I never fully recovered,” my mother continues. “My health started getting worse after that, and before I knew it, I was hospitalized.”