Chapter 62

Daevishk stroked his fingers through his new little mate s hair. It was fine stranded, unlike his own, and so soft to the touch, like the rest of her, that he found it irresistible to do so – and so he didn t resist. Having his own mate and his own Bond now, he both understood better what his brother endured. He had thought that his time in the penal colony had been the hardest experience of his life but holding his mate down so that Nadyr could do the required scent marking had been horrendous. And he had done it, knowing that once it was over, he could take his mate back into his own den and soothe her. His brother did not have the same luxury as he did not possess his mate. Mira s end of the Bond was a white seeded with blue and green but faintly veined with pink. It had taken a long time to soothe her after letting Nadyr use her. As dominant, it was his right to share his mate with another, but he knew that Mira has seen it as a betrayal, a break in trust, and he had