Chapter 78

Troy

“Our mate,” Vortigen said in my head, his voice filled with anguish. “He’s hurting our mate. Kill him.”

“No. We can’t kill everyone who hurts Quinn’s feelings.”

“Why not?” Vortigen asked. “That is our job. We must protect our mate.”

That was the problem with my wolf. Sometimes, he was all about the emotion, and when it came to Quinn he was downright irrational. He'd burn the world to the ground to see her safe and happy. I couldn't say that I fully disagreed with his stance on the matter.

Sensing that I did not want to kill Claude, Vortigen tried to force his way to the surface so he could do it instead. “No,” I said sternly and pushed him aside. “Can you not feel it? She loves him. She is angry and hurt, but she still loves him. If we kill him, she’ll never forgive us.”

Very slowly, Quinn started to reanimate. She was terrified, confused, angry, but most of all, she was so, so happy to see her father alive and relatively unharmed. She tucked at her hair while she stared at