Chapter 25

Mia

It had been a strange night, and that was my only excuse for not hearing what the alpha said the first time. “I accept.”

“Fine.” The alpha kissed me again and then leaned back with a smile lifting the corners of his lips. “When the fog lifts, we will find your friends and tell them to enjoy the rest of their trip then return home without you. We will send a message along for Tal and Selin with them.”

“You make it sound so simple.”

He shrugged. “It is if we want it to be.”

I locked my arms around his neck. “I so want it to be because nothing about getting here was.”

I’d felt safe and warm every time they touched me, but now, with two of us naked and the third dropping his pants off the side of the bed, my heart was pounding so loud, it echoed in my ears. Straddling Dan’s lap, I might have better control, but his length would still extend so far into me, I wasn’t sure I had enough space for it. But instead of being scared, I was excited. The Fates wouldn’t give me a mate I couldn’t