A Necessary Cruelty

[LORD RAFE ALDER MORLAND]

MY GAZE SHIFTED down to the helmet in my hands, then to the figure of the human girl storming off and disappearing out the door.

My jaw tightened, taking a breath out as if that would lighten the heavy feeling beating against my chest. The venom in her voice had the strain of a reignited passion.

One of utter detest.

If I had thought the human was learning to trust, whate