Mated To The Cold Hearted Alpha – Chapter 114
All of the animosity trained from her face, replaced by confusion. “I’m sorry for your loss, and I hope you get the answers you seek. But it is a very dangerous time right now. You are standing in the crosshairs of a volatile conflict. We have not been able to confirm where everyone’s loyalties stand. For your own sake and that of your sister, it would be better for you to return to her right now. Stay away because the blood of many wolves is going to be shed.”
“I can’t leave, not yet. Tell me what happened. Have you tried negotiations? I didn’t come here for that, but maybe I can help.” Truthfully, the last thing I wanted to involve myself with was a war. Hycinth needed me now more than ever.
Sydney replied flatly, “We’re at war because Hycinth left him.”
n I unders
k.
to contain my dread. “What happened to Leander?”
the first time, all of her defenses were gon
k.
hands clasped together with my elbows resting on my knees. “But he’s alive?”
didn’t offer any
d why?” It just didn’t make any sense to me, but clearly, I had been left out of critical political events in the past.
p from another pack. As far as their reasoning, we just assumed it was the same as it’s been for decades-territory.”
he’s going to use this conflict to try again. He’ll end it but at the cost of his own life.”
ugh me.
to take his own life?!
pain of losing a mate. So far, I hadn’t had time to dwell on it, but the devastation was pulling me apart bit by bit, and I’d never even
in a ragged breath.
said the one thing I never expected her to
expected it. If anything, I assumed she would try to capitalize
a long moment, she replied, “I can’t speak for him, but I have to hope that somehow…” her words drifted off. She recognized the uphill battle they had just as much as I did.
rom Leander?”
e kitchen.
ind of a f****d up situation.
d up the drink, swallowing deeply. Wiping her lips with the back of her hand, she refused to look at me and stared off at a point on the wall to t
he beer I was holding and took a swig, wait
ll be wrong.
s glistened. “They killed my mate.”
he living room. “Come on.”
her swallow of her drink.
ed to him.”
k. His name was Jason.”
rge to ask more questions, I waited to let her speak.
r mind, “before he was stolen from me forever.”
antly, of course, and the timing couldn’t have been worse. There we were, standing on opposite sides of the war, meeting for the first time. And then everything went horribly wrong.”
k. I could not even imagine that. “I’m so f*****g so
l her.”
oned. “Do you mean Lean
s claws took out his throat with one mighty sweep. First Jason, and then Maddie, and I never understood why. Obviously, our talks end-“
thundered in my ches
ng?”
barely get the words out, “was her name Madison?”
did you know that? Did you know her?”
r?”
headed toward the hallway.
jewelry box. Lifting a gold locket, she held it out to me.
tiny piece of jewelry like my life depended on it, my body curled in on itself. I held it to my lips. “It’s her!” my voice hitched as a sob broke from my throat in both devastation and unimaginable gratitude that I had this little gift…
…I finally knew who she was and what she looked li