TRUE MATE REJECTED
“That’s how we greet people outside the swamp. Think you can manage that?”
I try it, taking Lewis’s warm hand and moving it up and down. I’ve never touched a male before, but his hand feels the same as mine or Mama’s, only softer. It feels warm and nice enveloping mine, but I pull away quickly. Mama said not to trust people outside our family.
“Say what I said, but use your name instead of mine,” Ama says to me before meeting Lewis’s gaze. “I have to spell out the most ridiculous things to her. I thought I was getting his mate, not babysitting an overgrown toddler.”
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