When Rowan came to join me in our room about two hours later, he looked annoyed.

“What is it?” I asked him right away. I knew I wouldn’t have peace until I knew what was going on.

“I don’t want you to panic,” he said tentatively. “There’s a deranged Alpha in the cell who claims to be your first mate and wants to kill you.”

I gasped. “Dominic?”

“Yes, that’s his name. Just so you know, I am going to kill him.”

“No!”

“Excuse me?”

I nearly cowered before him when I saw how he glowered at me. But then I remembered that this was my true mate, the love...