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leave you and your brothers vulnerable. You were all so young, and she wouldn’t let that happen. And so she sacrificed herself. She married Serrif. While I ran like a coward across the border.”
    Kane turned and walked away from Darius. Amara stood still and let the two men sort this out between themselves. She had heard Darius’s side of the story, but she had no knowledge, no proof of whether what he said was true or not. Only when she went back to the Prime would she be able to help Kane find answers. And that was what Darius wanted: for her and Kane to travel back to the place they belonged and for Kane to take back what was rightfully his and avenge his father.
    Maybe that was the one reason she was willing to go along with Darius’s version, because it meant she would be able to go home. Not in three years’ time, but now, tonight.
    “Is this some kind of a test?” Kane asked angrily. “Are you trying to figure out if I am suitable to be your heir? Is that what this is? A test of loyalty?”
    “No, Kane. This is the truth I would have told you a thousand times over the last twenty years. I always wanted you to know, but we can’t risk everyone finding out.”
    “Why? Why not just leave here and go back to your precious Prime? If you love it there so much, if you want me to go back and take back my father’s legacy, why not come with me?” Kane asked, his voice rising.
    Darius went to him, trying to calm him down. “Because if anyone knows who I am, what I am, I will lose everything.”
    “How convenient. So you have a reason to stay, and you have given me a reason to leave. If you don’t think I would make a good heir to your empire, you should just say it,” Kane spat bitterly.
    This was not going how Amara had hoped. Surely, since Kane had felt the lion stirring within him, he would have been only too pleased to go and claim his rightful destiny. However, she could sense the fear in him; this was a life-changing decision, from which there would be no turning back if he chose to leave. But what if he chose to stay? Where did that leave her?
    Amara had asked Darius to leave her out of this. If Kane chose to go home to the Prime, it had to be for the right reasons. He had no idea she was his mate and it would be better if it stayed that way for now.
    Once the bracelet was off his wrist, then they could deal with the rest of his shifter heritage. But now, she was unsure as to what he was going to say, and she wished she could use their bond for leverage. But she had to do the right thing by him, and in that way, although she knew the sense of being bonded with him was muted by the collar on her neck, she knew they were true mates.
    Because if they weren’t, she wouldn’t have stopped to even think of the consequences, she would have used everything she had to persuade him to return to the homeland she loved.
     

Chapter Nine – Kane
     
    “I need time to think,” Kane said, heading for the door leading out of the boathouse and out of the nightmare his life had become.
    Before last night in the moonlight, he had been certain of who he was and where his life was going; now he had no idea. What were they asking him to do? Give up everything, his whole life, and go and live in a country that was like another planet. Full of people who would be alien to him.
    His skin itched, the sensation that he was about to burst at the seams becoming all too real again.
    “You. This is all your fault,” he said to Amara, although he knew it was unfair. Even before she had come here, he had known he was changing, that he was different.
    “No, it’s not,” Darius said, coming to her rescue.
    “Last night, she touched me, she did something to me,” Kane accused, placing his hand on his skin where her fingers had trailed whilst setting fire to his senses.
    “It wasn’t her fault. She never wanted to come here.” Darius looked at her, and she shot his uncle a look that silenced him.
    “What hold does she have