Chapter 31

Dinner was an awkward affair, for more reasons than one. Lily kept looking between her brother and me, turning beet red and giggling, in-between telling him off for something he said to her mate. Grey was being a typical protective big brother and grilling his sister’s mate about the young beta’s werewolf politics and views on she-wolfs. I had shooed them all from the kitchen and refused help, as I worked better and faster alone, but that had opened the door for the grey wolf’s interrogation and sizing up Randon.

There was also the matter of me thinking up a way to get my new mate out of my hair for the night which would be tricky. I didn’t want to make it obvious I was trying to get rid of him on the night of the full Moon either as that would be hella suspicious. Most newly bonded mates would jump at the chance to run together in their wolfskin beneath the full Moon, side by side. It was the natural thing to do. But I was not a normal wolf and I could not have Grey on my land unti