Page 99 of My Unexpected Mate

“Was there anything else about him?” Nick asked, already knowing the answer to that question.

Annie shook her head. “No. Just this. It was very short.”

I looked back down at my plate and grabbed a bite.

Aria went back to thinking and barely eating.

Annie, Nick and I exchanged looks.

Nick and I agreed we would tell her everything. We decided to wait for a couple of days. Just until we could get her to sleep and eat. We didn’t want to burden her with this so soon after what she found out just yesterday.

I know it will be hard for her either way. Her whole life was a lie. It was not going to be easy to accept it all. And we wanted to make it as painless as possible. And this was the only way we knew how to.

I didn’t think there was a right way to do this. How do you tell someone that they were kidnapped because they were powerful and supposed to change the world for supernaturals and humans? And that the person who raised them and who they loved was the one who kidnapped them and separated them from their family?

There is no easy way to do that. I just hoped we made the right choice.

“What should we wear tonight?” Annie interrupted my train of thought.

“Something that will not attract men’s attention,” Nick said. “I am not in the mood to kill somebody tonight.”

I chuckled and Annie frowned.

“That only applies to Aria, right?” she asked and raised her eyebrow.

“Mostly,” Nick said. “But I don’t want them staring at you either, Ann. We have to protect you as well.”

Annie laughed. “Aren’t you the sweetest.”

“Nick is right,” I interfered. “Wear something that will not require us to peel the men off of you.”

I winked at her, and she laughed hard.

“Nick, I don’t know if you noticed, but your mate is so beautiful and hot that she could wear a potato sack and men would still stare,” Annie said with a smirk.

Nick growled loudly and Aria blushed.

“Annie!” Aria said. “Shut up.”

“What?” she laughed. “I am telling the truth.”

“Go get ready before Nick loses it and tears down my kitchen,” I said and got up.

The girls laughed, got up and walked upstairs.

Nick frowned and growled quietly.

“Relax, man,” I said and started loading the dishwasher. “Nobody will touch her.”

“I know that,” he said. “I would tear their arms. But I am jealous even if they look at her.”

I laughed. “Well, you can’t really stop that. They will look. She is pretty.”

He growled and got up. “I know that. I am not saying I am rational. It is hard to control my wolf side. I am possessive. And she is mine. To touch and to look at.”

I chuckled and shook my head. “Werewolves. Just go get ready. We should leave soon.”

The girls got dressed pretty fast and came downstairs.