“I… I don’t… I don’t understand.”
I closed my eyes as I started shaking my head, a way of showing my disbelief. I found myself taking a step back again, trying and failing to understand what he had just told me. The book that he had given me to read had said that you could only ever have one mate. Everything else that it had said had proven to be true thus far, and I found it difficult to believe that this time would be every different. It just didn’t make sense. If I was his mate, then how was it possible for him to have had another?
“I was mated to Ivy and Anas’ mother. Her name was Louella.”
I found my mind filled with the memory of me looking at the pictures that had decorated the walls in the office—the ones in which he had stood beside a woman with striking blonde hair a
