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Chapter Forty: Not Good Enough

Antoine's POV

I hadn't expected Stacie's outburst. I was only asking a question, so why the flare-up? I ignored her words. "Just in case, you shouldn't slip it out to anyone, whosoever it is. Not by mistake, not by anything else."

That got her on the edge again. "Why!? Why shouldn't I just go and shout out to everyone, in a loud and clear voice!" She said, then her voice softened as she said; "what is so bad about the fact that I'm your mate?" Her voice grew louder again. "Is there any reason I should not tell anyone?"

"Just one. Because I'm asking you not to"

Her expression hardened. "Not good enough."

She started to turn away, but I caught her arm and pulled her into my embrace. "Stacie-----"

Her body stiffened in my embrace, the gesture shocked even me. I quickly pulled out of the embrace, the moment my hand made contact with her arm. But I had felt the touch, light as it was and I could see how she had also responded to my touch in the softening of her eyes, in the slight int
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