Chapter 26 - Sarael

Meeting Hana has thrown me for a bit of a loop. Mostly because she started the interaction by calling me ‘Auntie.’ Khalid had only just started calling me eama before I left. So to hear someone call me the English form of the word was jarring. And it struck me in a way I can’t explain. I know it scares me.

I’m a terrible aunt. Look what I did to my own niece. Why would someone want me to be their aunt? And then to call me her idol? That girl had me freaking out. I get it that in the werewolf community, being his mate is as good as a marriage license but more binding. I don’t know if I can do this.

I’ve gone on one date with the man, and everyone around here thinks it means we are together. That I’m a permanent fixture in the pack. But do I want that? Part of me does. I can blame the mate bond for that. The rest of me feels being mixed up with a werewolf is th