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Yes, you’ve seen me naked, and yes, we had planned to be mates. But all of that is over, so it’s time for you to accept the choices you made and treat this situation with the seriousness it deserves.”
    Any lustful thoughts he had vanished. He narrowed his eyes. He wasn’t about to let her remarks go. “Me? Yes, I fucked up. I was scared of your uncle and I ran, but I tried to make it up to you. Hell, I wrote you a letter nearly every day for a year, but you never replied in all that time, not once.”
    Kaya blinked. “What?”
    He itched to grab her arms and bring her close, but somehow he resisted. “Don’t pretend you don’t know how your uncle and DarkStalker’s old clan leader forced me to join the army to get away from you. I was young, and had fucked up, but I loved you and tried to make it right. You were the one who was childish and couldn’t even bother to send a one sentence letter to tell me how your feelings had changed.” He leaned his face down to hers. “You’re the one who broke my heart, Kaya Alexie, so stop trying to blame me for the shittiness of your decision.”

 
     
    Chapter Four
     
     
     
    Kaya stared at Sy and tried to make her mouth work, but his words just kept repeating inside her head. I was young, and had fucked up, but I loved you and tried to make it right.
    The way he’d said it, full of anger and a little pain, put a crack in the wall she’d built around herself on the way here to make her feel nothing for Sylas Murray.
    Her uncle had never supported Sy as her choice of mate. When she’d brought him to the autumn celebration all those years ago and introduced him as her boyfriend, her Uncle Frances had taken one look at Sy and turned away. The majority of her clan had followed his lead.
    But Sy had kept her close to his side the entire evening. He’d even managed to tease a laugh out of her as they danced in the middle of the room with her clan watching, their glares not fazing him one bit. If anything, the stares and looks had made him draw her tighter against him.
    To this day, that had been one of the happiest days of her life, and all because of the man now standing less than a foot away from her.
    His eyes were hot and angry, burning straight into her, and Kaya decided to put aside her visit to DarkStalker’s land for a moment. She needed to know his side of the story, and this might be her only chance to get it. While she’d investigated Sy after he’d left, she’d never come across one of his letters. Even after he had come back from his tours in Iraq, she’d kept her distance, afraid to see him happy with anyone else.
    But she needed to know if he was telling the truth, and she couldn’t do that without more information.
    She held his gaze, took a deep breath, and said, “I never knew about the letters.”
    He frowned and took a step back. “You’re lying.”
    She shook her head. “No.” She stepped toward him and looked up into his eyes. “I. Never. Received them.” She should leave it at that, but she burned with curiosity. Before she could change her mind, she forced herself to ask, “What did they say?”
    His face went expressionless and she instantly knew he wasn’t going to elaborate.
    It shouldn’t matter what his decade-old letters said, as they were both different people now. Hell, she was in charge of an entire clan. But her inner wolf didn’t like the unknowing. Answers would allow the wolf to forget about the cougar and sniff out a new, stronger mate who would look after their pups.
    Before Kaya could repeat her question, something flashed in his eyes. But it was gone before she could tell what it was. Then he said, “I didn’t come here to talk about our past, and what might’ve been. In case you’ve forgotten, there could be crazy wolf-shifters roaming the land, ready to infect your people. I’ll work with you because my brother asked me to, but once this is over, I think it’s best if we go back to avoiding each