Chapter thirty one

Asher glanced at her sharply. The question was never one he had expected from her or even asked himself. Their eyes locked and he tried to see what could have prompted the question from her but all he saw were clear beautiful hazel eyes. Seconds ticked by before he answered in a whisper, “I don’t know. I have never been in love, so…” he licked his lips softly, his eyes traveling to hers. “To reject your mate, you have to be feeling a bond stronger than the mating bond with someone else, otherwise, there is nothing stopping the mating bond from claiming you the first day.”

“Never been in love you said,” Naomi whispered.

“Never ever.”

“Does that make you a virgin?” she asked, her face coloring over with her question as she chided herself in her mind.

Asher chuckled, “that word is very far from me.” The look in her eyes made him laugh softly, “it stopped applying to me from my sixteenth birthday.”

“So you are like a playboy?” she raised an eyebrow.

Asher smiled and shrugged, “that’s one