~Jesse’s Point of View~   I laid in my bed at school, staring at the wall for about the fifth hour straight. My parents had both been calling constantly and I finally had to turn my phone off. If it was serious they’d just show up. KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK I inhaled deeply. Ryan and Troy both. Ryan wasn’t here when I got in, weird for the middle of the day but then again he disappeared a lot, and for hours sometimes. Could he secretly teleport too? I didn’t think that was in his power but I guess nothing made sense anymore. My eyes darted around the room, wondering if I should shift and jump out the window. Teleport to a remote island. “Knock it off,” Ryan said, opening the door. 

~Jesse’s Point of View~   “Baby, you smell like me…” That can only mean one thing. Only one thing… Blow me down! *Yeeeeah, that’s right. I knew it,* my tiger said, beside himself. I held Miranda’s face, she stared at me trying to put together what I said. She was just as lost for words as I was, and it seemed like we both might faint. This changes everything. Everything. Absolutely everything. Fuck I have to tell the guys. My mum is going to lose it! Miranda’s eyes sparkled a bit and I continued to hold her face, my body moved on its own, going toward her desperate to kiss her perfect lips. I licked mine in anticipa

~Jesse’s Point of View~   “You wanna take out the High Priest of Black Myst? Yet I’m the crazy one out smoking in the bush,” Gwen said, in shock. I stood with my roommates around her campfire, my dad was somewhere behind us, pacing. He hadn’t said much once I told him I couldn’t keep my promise, I wouldn’t give up Miranda. He had to know I’d change my mind but he wasn’t a shifter. I had to imagine it was vastly different for us, having an animal in your head controlling you. Telling you what they want. I didn’t only live for myself. My tiger had chosen, and Miranda would be his mate come hell or high water. Now that I had her and the baby, so much more was at stake. But that also meant an entirely different level of danger. Pissing off a dark magic coven and killing their leader.

~Jesse’s Point of View~   Maybe I hoped Miranda would fall asleep after we made love, it would give me more time to be a chook. I couldn’t look her in the eye and tell her what I needed to tell her. But fuck, she deserved to know.  It was no way to start our relationship, to start out being parents. Unfortunately we were both anything but normal people. Our paths may have been intertwined, our fates sealed by the animals in us demanding to be mated and marked but that didn’t mean our human nature couldn’t still have some control. The mafia she-wolf princess and her warlock tiger. Maybe we could be a movie at some point. Our story was certainly that crazy and it was only gonna get worse. After we both settled down, I got us some water and iced animal

~Jesse’s Point of View~   I had two days until I was meeting Murphy again. Two days to think about nothing but Miranda, to completely spoil her with my attention and love. Oh … and uhm, going to class. Which I’d been neglecting. She probably had been as well. If my plan worked out then I’d hopefully stay in school, I needed to provide for my new family. When I came to school I was just lost, wild … stupid. I was still lost and stupid. But now I was rooted, grounded to something bigger than myself. Far more important. I had a purpose now, she’d given that to me. I snuggled into my mate, and inhaled her hair. I relaxed and my tiger snored, completely content. It would be damn nice to have him off my back for a little while. Mate.