Chapter 18: Deeper Feelings and an Unexpected Mate

~Thane~

I had towards the bar, trying not to let my memories fog my head.

This was how it happened last time. Khione had spent so much of her time with Atticus that her bond with me started to wither. And now it looked like the past was rearing its ugly head again.

"Let me guess; you had no choice but to bring him here because of Evette?" Olivia sits next to me, "Did I guess right?"

"Bingo," I down a shot. Olivia rolls her eyes, "You guys are all the same. Huffing and puffing over your mate's attention."

"You'd be too if you found your mate," I countered.

"Oh, please, Thane. You know I'm right. So why are you voluntarily isolating yourself?

I look at my reflection in the shot glass, "I've given her a peek inside my head, I've flirted with her, and I've tried not to become a jealous asshole, but I can't help it."

"You know what this sounds like, right?" Olivia takes one of my shots.

"Don't say it,"