“That’s a very long story.” He whispers. “This has something to do with the secret you won’t tell me, doesn’t it?” I asked, but I didn’t need to. I felt I already had the answer. I gleaned it from the haunted expression of his features. “Yes.” He confirms. I brace myself, ready for the ultimate heartbreak. I hope he isn’t still with her. I can’t have another female after my mate, not again. And if he was, then what the h3ll was he doing out here with me. He wasn’t about to break up with me, was he? Who could walk away from the mate bond after a taste of it? This all seemed too cruel to be real. “Do you still love her” it was somehow easier than asking the alternative. I could get over it if she were in the past. Most wolves had one, after all. We were rather promiscuous creatures. Bu