Chapter 723

• Reaching over, he touched the side of her face. “Journee. It’s not that I’m not happy, I’m just—” He didn’t even know how to explain it. “The idea of there being a mate for me out there was never something I thought about.”
• She moved her hand and leaned away from him. “Oh.”
• “No.” He shook his head. “That’s not—since the day—the day you bravely followed your sister.” He thought that was a better way to say it. “Since that day, I have had one objective.” His cat wasn’t happy that she’d moved away. He needed to explain. “To find those that killed my family and to stop them from ruining more lives.” Taking her hand, he raised it to his mouth and kissed it softly. “That-I didn’t allow thoughts of anything else.” It was the truth, his entire being was solely focused on that.