"I killed her."

Delilah stared at him. Her hands and legs were shaking. "W-What are you s-saying?"

He shrugged his shoulders and continued to sharpen the stake.

She stepped back. She could not believe that someone could kill their own mate.

Her real parents were mates. But her father might be in an extramarital affair with Naomi. So the next day after her mother's death her father married Naomi as his chosen mate.

Though he did not like her mother still he had to be with his mate when she was alive because no one could resist their mate bond.

Mates were the part and parcel of a werewolf.

She...