Nick's POV

“Did you hurt her? Simeon asked again, his eyes searching me thoroughly as if he was seeing me for the first time, or maybe to him I just turned into an alien species or something.

“I didn't mean to,” I said calmly as I sank my back against a tree with a heavy sigh. “She called me a bastard, my mate called me a bastard,” I said subconsciously.

I didn't know why it felt like she called me something that no one has ever called me, been called a bastard was something I have grown used to, but hearing her call me bastard felt like an arrow has...