Alpha Nocturne's Contracted Mate

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“Well, it’s a little late for that now.” Ann snapped, crossing her arms in front of her.

“Ann, be realistic, we’ve barely had time to breathe with everything that was going on..” “I don’t care, Adam… what happened? Why won’t you tell me?”

Adam lowered his chin again and reached for her arms, pulling them apart and taking hold of her hands with his. “I guess it’s more important now that we know the full details of NArcissa’s coven’s plot. Honestly, I thought the woman must have just slipped the guards and escaped…”

“What do you mean escaped, Adam? What about the Elders?”

sighed heavily and stared

were even able to question a few of them. They said that Esmerelda had wormed her way into Tomas’s life a few years ago and that he had gradually changed his opinions and his stance on a lot of topics once he began spending more and more time with her. Eventually, it got to a point where they were barely ever apart. None of them thought to question it as he was old, had never found his fated mate and… well… male urges and all that.” He said

to inhibit her use of magic. We a*s*sumed she had escaped and despite our best efforts,

Ann gasped in horror.

you didn’t think to at least tell me about this? Warn me at all?” She

been put on a one-way ticket there…” Adam grimaced as he sighed heavily, “Hindsight is a wonderful thing…”

is out there somewhere… more than likely having returned to her Coven in order to either further

headed over to their walk-in wardrobe and slid the door to the side, disappearing inside momentarily before coming out and

this back on

smiled as he opened his palm. In his hand was the necklace that he had given to Ann, which had been inherited from his grandparents. If he hadn’t have been certain of its authenticity back then, Narcissa’s words had only strengthened his belief. His grandmother had never taken this off, and

the side as he carefully fixed the

kiss on the top of her head. “I’m just sad that you didn’t tell me. We need to look into this as soon as I’m crowned,

Adam nodded silently.

at the time he truly thought that it was for the best. He would do anything

have to work hard to change that mindset because he had a feeling that neither Ann nor Maeve, would stand for any sort of secrecy

be prudent to always keep this necklace on, removing it only for cleaning, in order to protect herself from any future attacks that might be