Thirteen.

Bella

“What did you say?” I mutter in disbelief

She stares with wide grey eyes, “Shit, you didn’t know!”

“How am I supposed to know that? I’m seventeen. I don’t even have my Wolf. How do you know that? I’m not even supposed to have a mate.”

“Leighton told me.”

“Leighton?”

“I thought you knew. You spend the whole day and night in his room. It made sense after Leighton told me the news. I thought you guys would be doing stuff.”

“You are wrong! I’m a Creedance. We don’t have mates.”

She shrugs her shoulders at me and mumbles something about how it was obvious.

“Obvious? Is Aiden going around telling everyone that we are mates?”

“Noooo. Just Leighton and then Leighton told me because I kept asking questions.”

“Why didn’t Aiden say anything to me?”

“Because you keep spouting the stuff about being cursed. That you won’t have a mate and all that. How do you think he feels?”

“You’re screwing with me, aren’t you? Some kind of game, to try and prevent me from running.”

She shakes her head.

“Thi