There had been a time when she would have watched every woman approaching Phei with the suspicion of a guard dog who had recently discovered knives could wear perfume. She had raised him, protected him, watched danger gather around him before he possessed the power to recognize it.
That instinct did not disappear simply because he had awakened.
But there was a difference between protection and control.
Melissa had no intention of becoming a dictator who decided which women were permitted to enter his orbit and which ones must remain outside it.
Phei clearly wanted Dravenna:
The hunger between them was not subtle enough to require investigation, and Dravenna's own love and promise as Phei as her one and only Mate had survived years, distance, secrets and whatever impossible duties had kept her away.
Why would Melissa sabotage that?
'My Phei now knows how to make his own choices.'
