Glenda’s POVMate.The words echoed through me as I let Matt kiss me as if he wanted to steal all the breath from my lungs. Mate had been such a distant idea for me for so long, like the faintest star in the sky, but I remembered how bright the idea had been when I was a little girl watching the way my parents loved each other with everything they were.After Dan, Midnight, Larry’s, and all the memories that I shoved to a deep dark corner in my mind, I had never thought that I would find such a person, let alone like this. Even if I were to find my mate, I was sure that everything that had happened to me, every scar and trauma would make them reject me, yet here he was, kissing me so desperately.Matt was my mate. Had he always known? Why hadn’t he said anything?Would I have believed him if he had?I couldn’t resist. I didn’t want to fight. After everything that had happened tonight, I just wanted to be safe. I couldn’t remember feeling as safe as I had with Matt.Mate, Alyssa said a
Matt’s POVLucas was furious, but not angry enough to push me to do anything more than what had been done. I could still taste her on my lips.Why did you not tell her? Why did you stop me? He roared, She must know us! She must not think we are not mates. Haven’t we waited enough?That was a stupid question. Of course, we had.Everything in me wanted to pull her close, howl, and mark her as soon as she said it, but now wasn’t the time. Mordecai was still nearby. The area was crawling with Midnight officers. If that wasn’t bad enough, Ben was still too close.There were too many eyes and too many unknowns around us to think it was safe. She had already been kidnapped because she was important to me. There was no telling what would happen to her if Ben found out we were mates. He’d take her and likely hold her for ransom or worse.Allowing her to say it in these circumstances had already been risky, but I was pretty confident that no one had been close enough to hear her. We were treadi