16. Wariness

Aiden realized how hasty he had been when he called his mom in the evening. She told him she wished he would have called her before making such a decision – erasing his mate’s memories, that was.

He knew he had acted rashly, but he had thought that his parents out of everyone would understand.

After all, they knew how it went the last time he had shared his secret with a human friend – his only human friend back when he had been ten years old.

The dumbfounded Tom had acted politely but his voice had held this hint of wariness that Aiden had just chosen to ignore.

He shouldn’t have.

And boy did the ten year old babble afterwards!

Tom’s parents had come to tell Aiden’s parents that their child needed help if he believed so strongly in the existence of werewolves, and even worse viewed himself as one.

His parents had berated him so much on his recklessness, and had had to use the service of an eraser to deal with th