Austin
He’d attempted to stop Winnie from striking her own son, only to have Lauchlan allow it to land. He knew in that instant Lauchlan was letting go of his own mother. He also knew the words she’d spoken were very wrong. She’d heard what her own Mate had done, and who it was too, understood that Winnie had seen Ryder as her own son’s Fated Mate and had just declined to believe it.
The words about Lauchlan himself and that it hadn’t affected his life, were also wrong, for although he had been happy with Tyler, he’d been told his Goddess-Gifted had died and lived with that thought, had to deal with the pain and knowledge of it. Regardless of the fact that he’d never met her, it was akin to being deemed mate-less. Not exactly the same, but it got the same initial reaction because none of
