Chapter Twenty-Eight

Ianthe

My mate has been revealed to me and I don't know what to do. It makes sense that I would be mated to an alpha as I come from a bloodline of alphas, and I'm excited and scared at the same time.

Excited because Ricardo is more than I could ever have imagined. He's handsome, powerful, sexy and caring, even if he doesn't show that side of him to anybody else. Keeping my mouth shut has been a problem for me.

I want to shout it from the rooftops. I want to tell him that everything happened for a reason so we should be together. Our family's connection isn't mere circumstance and things had to fall apart for our union to come to fruition.

And Natalia has been growing even more impatient with me. We have continued to go on our morning runs with the Alpha and she wants to get marked, but I know it's not supposed to happen yet. I have to be eighteen for the mating ceremony, and though I find it complete torture trying to keep my hands off the glistening muscles of Ricardo when we wor