Chapter 6

Bowden

“My last mate?” I ask and stare at Kaiya’s slender back. “How do you know?"

"I just know," Griffin says. "It's in the way Knox behaves...and you, you are more protective than usual. It feels different this time, doesn't it?"

Frowning, I nod at my Beta. Am I that obvious? "So after she dies, this ends? The torture of finding and losing mates, it all finally ends?”

“No. It doesn’t end, Bowden. It never ends.”

I have more questions, but Kaiya turns around to look at us, her big grey eyes questioning. “Should I go so you can talk in private?” she asks with all the grace of a well-trained Alpha's daughter.

“No,” I say. “Please-” I indicate to the food on the table -“go ahead and eat.”

“I’ll wait for you,” she says and turns her back on us again.

She might have lived as a rogue for way too long, but the Luna training she no doubt received from her mother is starting to kick in. Whether she knows that’s she’s falling back on her instincts are unclear, but it's there all the sam