“Rejected?”
I was shocked to hear that word aloud, even though I had suspected it for a while now. Ares was not the first man to take Zaahra as a mate, and if things did not work out between them she would have been turned down twice and still have no mate.
It didn’t matter what had caused her first mate to reject her, or that the reason things were not simple now was something as significant as the bond I had with her mate; two failed partnerships would leave her with very few prospects. She would go from someone like Ares to someone… someone like Luc.
“It is not my place to reveal her pain, Morrigan. But yes… Zaahra was rejected by her first mate. I think that she really loved him.”
“Does that mean her original pack were even more powerful than yours?”
I sounded a little in awe at
