Harry was shocked. So shocked, he was rendered nearly speechless. Carine had done it and left the palace all because she couldn’t handle being under the pressure of becoming his mate. Was it that bad for a weretiger to be a vampire’s one and only? What was the worst that could happen really? Something akin to realization flashed in Blake’s eyes, and he soon told him, “Carine is dying.” “What?” Harry, who had risen to his feet when he got wind of her departure and who had been pacing around the living room like a caged animal, came to an abrupt stop. “She’s dying?” He repeated after Blake dumbly to which his sire simply nodded. Harry grabbed the plate in which he had been eating and sent it flying across the living room until it crashed against the wall. Alice whose mind barely ha