Either way, she knew she couldn't stand by and just watch while it killed her mate.

"I saw one of these creatures killing its mate."

"They tried to kill my mate and child," Marc said.

She saw us kill her mate with iron, and had to find out what the new weapon was.

"What shall I do about the protectors who killed my mate?"

His mother had been raped by a man of the Others, who also killed her mate.

He was a killer, worse than the man who had killed his own mate.

At last he had recognized the creature who had killed his mate long years before.

How could you, of all people, possibly think I could kill my true mate?

You didn't need to be brilliantly clever to figure out what that meant: hold still, or we kill your mate here.