The Mate He Rejected
"My own people. I trusted them. I healed their children. And they set me up to be destroyed."
"They tried to destroy you," Cullen corrected, his thumbs brushing firmly over my knuckles. "But they failed. You are sitting here wearing my crest. You are stronger now than they ever anticipated."
"Who did it?" I asked, my voice cracking. A fierce, burning anger began to rise from the ashes of my shock. My wolf paced frantically in the front of my mind, demanding blood. "Who gave the order, Cullen?"
"We are going to find out," Cullen promised, his voice a low, lethal rumble. "If it was an Elder, we will expose them to the Continental Council and watch them be stripped of their rank. If it was a co