~ LARK ~ “No, I did not bleed,” she said through her teeth. “But there is a very logical explanation for that, and Alpha Dalton knows it: He insisted on ensuring there was no scarring or lesions on my reproductive organs. I had to be internally scanned. The doctor who did the scan took care of… the barriers. Her name is Diane Hodgeson. And she’s—” “We have already heard from Doctor Hodgeson,” Michael Dalton spoke up quickly. “She remembers the testing for your fertility, but has no record of breaching your hymen.” “May I ask how else she would have done it?” “Well, if it had already been breached—” “So you all believe that I not only betrayed a mate bond, that I took the prophecy so lightly that I pursued mating with a male before it was even determined that he was the right male for