Elias’s POV “I know how you feel,” Lycan King Leonard tells me, and I snort in derision. “What could you possibly know about how I feel?” I say miserably. Maybe I should have flung myself down those stairs after all? Then I wouldn’t be up here in Lycan King Leonard’s private office listening to these empty platitudes. “Well, let’s see… my mate gave me a royal order to reject her after a month of being mated to her, and then I couldn’t find her for three years,” he says, and then it starts sounding like he is checking things off of an internal list from his head. “The night I find her, she gets killed by a band of rogue wolves. Then she came back to life and Moon goddess had given her a task to help wolves find their mate. And then she was given a reward for helping the moon god