Samantha’s POV
The moment those words left my mouth, I regretted them. I’d just condemned myself with a single sentence; there was no way I should have known Kade was looking for me, Samantha, his mate. From his point of view, I should have been oblivious to all of it.
I’d just made things so much worse for myself, hadn’t I?
“I never mentioned my mate,” Kade said slowly. Coldly. “And I never said the person I was looking for was the one who died.”
I bit the inside of my cheek so hard I felt the coppery taste of blood fill my mouth. How could I have been so stupid? As if it wasn’t bad enough as it was, I had to go and say that?
Kade tilted his head in that way again. “You look like you saw a ghost,” he said, gray eyes flickering with something dark and dangerous. It was a look I knew a
