“You think she is your mate?” He laughed bitterly. “She is a weapon just like her father. She was created to destroy us all.” “I am bound to her,” I said the words again, and the truth of them hummed within every inch of me as I raised my wrists. “I am tethered to her in a way that even these chains cannot stop.” My father ground his teeth together, his dark gaze tearing into mine. “The heir is a liability. She is not your mate.”