“She’s gone,” Harry announced brokenly as he emerged from the room three days later.
Maria’s eyes brimmed with tears. It was the first time she had lost a loved one in a very long time. And her mate hugged her from behind. She turned towards him and buried her face into his chest, and allowed herself to sob violently.
“She was a true warrior,” Blake said in a distant voice, almost as if he was reminiscing the past.
“She had to fight every bone in her body that told her to take you as her rightful mate for the longest time,” Nick added bleakly.
“I don’t think any of us could have done it. We, men, are much too selfish for that,” Alex scoffed at the mere thought of accomplishing what she had done.
“Do you think she’ll ever forgive me?” Harry asked when the
