I couldn't stop hearing it."Tell me the truth," I said to Nessa, the moment the other maids left the room. "The fated mate. What do you know?"She kept her eyes on the ribbon she was folding. "I only know rumors, Elena. Nothing certain.""I'll take rumors."She set the ribbon down slowly, like she was deciding whether saying it out loud would make it more real. "They say the Alpha found his mate years ago. Before the war. And something happened. Something terrible enough that no one in this palace speaks of it. Not the servants. Not the guards. I asked once, when we first arrived, and the woman I asked looked at me like I'd asked her to repeat a curse.""What happened to her? His mate?""I don't know. That's the truth, whatever you think of it. Nobody knows, or nobody's allowed to say.""Is she dead?""I don't know that either.""Then why does everyone act as though the wedding is already doomed?"Nessa hesitated long enough that I understood the answer before she gave it. "Because a
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