Nine.

Mathew POV.

"Tell me everything! Now!" Zach was demanding me to answer him, we were now in his room, Anna went to see James, her daddy, my mate, our mate now.

"He's my mate" I say blushing, "Both of them are" I say adding later.

"But how! James! The head of the house and the kitten! Why haven't you said anything?" he asks, sounding hurt.

"You know I would be on your side, like always, but still you hide having mates from me" he says sounding angrier now.

"I didn't hide it...it's just that...I didn't know" I say finally giving in, telling him the truth, why I didn't know they were my mates to begin with.

"How could you not know! It's obvious! Every vampire is looking for his mate!" he says with frustration, every vampire is, but I was raised between humans, even with the classes I took in school, they weren't enough for me to know much about mates.

"I didn't know! I just didn't know!" I say frustrated.

"How could you not?" He asks me, I just didn't!

"I wasn't born or raised as a