Stella "No! Let me go!" I screamed, kicked, and cried against my father's embrace. If they hadn't figured it out before that Jake and I were mates, they knew now. We were hidden in the treelines, waiting for the vampires to leave. I could care less. My need was to be with my mate. Maybe I could heal him somehow. A mating bond was the most substantial thing a werewolf had. My father held me in his arms, letting me cry it all out. "I know he was your mate, little one, but this fight is one we will lose if we go back out there." "That explains a lot," Alpha Blake said while holding his mate to his chest. Roxy was crying as much as I was. She had to watch somethin