"Fenris Ashvale, I know it was wrong of me to hide my identity and bond with someone else. But the world doesn't run on 'what ifs.' In all of the Crescent Dominion, the only wolf who matches my standing is the Alpha heir of the Stormfang Pack."
"We've been mates at the foot of this mountain for three years. I know exactly who you are."
But she had hidden her bloodline. How could she be so sure I hadn't done the same?
I looked around. The den we had built with our own hands. The territory we had cleared together. I refused to believe any of this was real.
"Seraphina, you're carrying my pups. Can't we just go back to the way things were? Please don't bond with him."
My gaze locked onto the woman in front of me. If she would just say yes, I was willing to forgive everything.
But all she did was press her lips together and say, quietly, "He and I have already been intimate. I have to take responsibility for that."
My eyes burned red. My body wouldn't stop shaking. "And what about me? Don't you owe me that same responsibility? What about our pups?"
Seraphina reached out and wiped the tears from my cheek. Her eyes were full of ache.
"Fenris, I'm only taking a mate. I'm not abandoning you."