Rex’s POV
The unease in my mind was quickly replaced with something else—something feral. A determination I didn’t know I had burned inside me, demanding that I protect what was mine.
Since the moment we stepped outside, I could feel it in the air—shock, anxiety, and those silent doubts. The moment Aries said her name, realization struck me like lightning. The mate who was supposed to be dead. And then I felt it… his guilt. A guilt that wasn’t mine to bear, yet it still gnawed at me.
I couldn’t blame him. Who would know the right way to react to something like this? It’s not every day that someone you buried comes back from the dead.
But I looked at her—really looked—and what I saw unnerved me.
She was unreadable. Her emotions guarded, even from my newly sharpened senses. That was the
