*Celeste*
“Lily didn’t want me,” he says softly, a heartbroken admission. “I had already marked my wife, and even though she’d met her mate, Lily did not want me if she wasn’t my only.”
I nod, not even sure what to say to that. He wouldn’t have been able to mark her while his wife was living, but I didn’t realize she didn’t want him because of it.
“We slept together the night we met,” he continues. “I’d hoped she’d grown to love me, that the bond would be as strong for her as it was for me. She wanted to reject me but couldn’t since she wasn’t a wolf, and I realized she was pregnant with Molly, so I refused to reject her.”
“But she has your mark now,” Robert points out.
He nods slowly and clasps his hands together, resting his elbows on his knees. “I marked her forcibly after my
