Bree’s P.O.V. I saw the Alpha’s eyes open wide, as he kept looking at me, and in the corner of my eye, I saw how Luke’s body tensed up. Clearly, they were not expecting that answer out of me. “But…” Luke started to speak, his voice breaking my heart, because I could hear the hurt in it, he was hurt by my answer. I had already hurt my mate without even trying. What a mate I was… “But… that can’t be… I already felt the mate pull, before that fucker was dead…” Luke brought out, and I swallowed, thinking back at the fight, and a dead Robert lying on the floor, bloody and mutilated. But also sensing my mate, and seeing that dark brown wolf inside the room, the back of his human form, and then his face… Luke’s face, my mate. “I don’t understand. Were you helping him get Lana?” Ash asked me