Helen POV
I blinked up at the sight of my mate. He ran upstairs so fast I hardly had time to crawl into the room to change clothes. He bore daggers down at me without mercy. I shuddered.
“Mate, what exactly are you doing?”
I hollowed my throat with a gusty inhale. “I was—it wasn’t like—”
Part of me was still so struck with his aura, with his power over our bond, but I had grown stronger too. I was no longer the tricolor wolfen with such a disappointed family and a bleak future.
I was pure now, more beautiful than I had ever felt in my life, and Alpha Justin is still my mate.
Climbing to my feet, I slung a finger into his chest. “You lied to me? You know the bloodsucker?”
Justin’s gaze narrowed at my newfound courage. “I never claimed to not know him, Helen.”
“You never claimed to
