The day Amarok Thorne cheated on me, I sliced my stepsister Thalyn Fay’s face with a dinner knife.
When I went to prison, my mate bond with Amarok broke automatically. He told everyone Thalyn was his real Luna.
Three years later, I got out of jail.
Amarok sent twenty wolf guards to protect Thalyn right away. He asked the Wolf Council to change the law so second offenses carried harsher punishments. He even sent middlemen to offer me anything I wanted if I left Thalyn alone.
But he was wrong.
I disappeared from his life completely, like a drop in the ocean.
We met again at my auto repair shop.
I spit out the licorice I was chewing, lifted the car hood with grease-stained fingers, and asked calmly, “How old’s this car?”
He stared at me in shock and snapped, “Velvela, this was your first gift to me.”
I paused with my wrench.
“Oh. Then it’s been around longer than me. Time to fix it up good.”
My voice was flat.
Amarok froze, opening and closing his mouth without speaking.
