Sloane was a fake mate a(ssigned to hei `$r Royce. For t=!hree ^* ;y.e ars;[], he +nev=/e++*r mark[= ed her, spi_ked her- dr?inks with suppressants,\ and h! #:umili ated h]er in public. H#$`@is/.^ brother Kael, # (whose Thorne blo)o +d Sloane rec_ogniz@]-ed at +@_a ce-(remon$y, re!*turned and pr ?=opos) ed ]a ]deal: @@[“Three mon ths, he ne\_ver p]?l\eas
_`/ed y\ou once. [I ?need on*e night.” One true bite shattere(;d the fake= bond. Sloa+ne carried
` Kael'^`?.s @ ]p_-up. Royce k illed Magnus for`,@ th((e% seat, k idnapped seve :n-months-pr+ 
e-\gnant [-Sloa==#ne,+ _ _and confessed
][to ev$erything—reco$rded (liv@e by ^=[the r(,i@ng :/she wor +e. Royce was = cage*d for life. Kae;l k  nelt befo;@re the pa,^ck and as]`ked Sloane to be h/is Lu=]na.