Chapter 43

• Alpha Damon’s POV
• “Your problem, Damon, is that you’re too emotionally invested,” my mother says, her voice calm yet pointed. She stands across from me, her arms folded, like she’s delivering a lecture I’ve heard a hundred times before. “You’re forgetting this is all part of a fake mate bond.”
• I scoff, shaking my head. “Emotionally invested? Hardly. I need her alive because if she dies here, in my territory, it’s not just the Alpha twins who’ll come for me. It’ll be the whole damn world. You think they won’t care I killed the true Priestess?”