~ JESSE ~
Her expression got very serious. "I don't believe so. I believe… I believe he has seen the error in his father's ways- at least, some of them," she said, though I didn't like the way she wasn't meeting my eyes.
"Maya-"
"Jesse, this is… you've achieved something that none of the females in Cazz's Royal line have done. You've captured your mate's heart. And gathered his power. This is… stunning."
I was too busy thinking back through all my conversations with Cazz, all those memories he'd shown me, trying desperately to remember if he'd ever actually said he wouldn't make our kids do the same thing.
…Cazz stepped right up, standing over me, staring right into my eyes with his jaw clenched. "When I was nineteen, I killed my eldest brother, and my girlfriend," he said quietly, toneless. "When I was twenty, I killed my other sister and brother in strategic moves to clear the path to the throne."
I sucked in a breath.