Chapter 23: No one has the right to touch you

~Kira~

“She’s your mate?” Jay asked surprisingly.

“His name is Jayden?” I asked, almost at the same time.

Xavier turned to look at me, and then back at Jay. We both had that shocked look on our faces, but Jay recovered quicker than me. In a matter of seconds, his face was back to a neutral one.

“You two know each other?” Xavier asked.

“We were…”

“No. we just bumped into each other on a few occasions.” Jay intercepted before I could speak. “We don’t really know each other that much. I thought she was one of the omegas that you decided to set free. Never thought that she was…you know…your mate”

The both of us exchanged awkward looks. I felt even more ashamed of myself that I allowed myself to be swayed by his compliments. And of all things, he had to be Xavier’s beta. He probably might see me as a pick-me girl now, especially now that he knows that I already had a mate even while he had been trying to woo me.

Kind of.

“Well, I guess you now see why I call her my bit of sanity in this