CHAPTER NINETY-NINE

CHAPTER NINETY-NINE

Evvie’s POV:

I couldn't get Logan’s words out of my head. My mind spun with a whirlwind of emotions, each one hitting harder than the last.

Barrak had killed his mate.

That makes so much sense to me now. Why he had been so against the mate bond since the beginning. Why he never talked about his mate. And why he found it so easy to connect with me when I told him about Zachary, his betrayal. Her betrayal, Sarah’s.

That was the link he found between me and him.

She rejected him, just like Zachary rejected me for someone else, for Brenda.

I thought I knew Barrak from inside out when we were together, but he never told me this.

He never told me he knew his mate.

But the answer is clear as day. He didn’t want me to know because he killed her, probably afraid of how he’d appear in my eyes when I realize it.

Hiding the truth and pretending to be a victim is worse.

My skin crawled and bile began to rise in my throat as I recalled the times he and I would become intimate to