And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Mouth parted, I stood in utter disbelief, staring at Lucas Vega. His eyes flecked with gold as he stared upon my figure, moving from the shadows out into the moonlight. How is it that this man, a man I had detested because of his cocky personality, was the man I was

supposed to be mated to?

So many questions ran through my mind, and as I got closer to him, flutters of nervousness flowed through my stomach. "You are my mate?"

It was a question, but it was also more of a statement. I couldn't believe the Fates had paired me with Lucas Vega, the notorious bad boy who wanted nothing more than to make my brother's life a living hell.

"Yes, I am. I waited so long for you to realize I was your mate, so I didn't have to be away from you any longer." Lucas stepped closer towards me, and as he did, I felt myself become completely uneasy.

I shouldn't have felt this way around my mate, and yet I couldn't help it.

"You turned eighteen four fucking months ago and you couldn't bother to tell me back then I was your mate? What the fuck is wrong with you?"

come out of my mouth after realizing he knew. I wasn't actually thinking when I had spoken, but now I had said what I did, I didn't regret it. Four months he had known

your own. It would have been unfair of me to come to you and tell you

he was thinking about me. I found the notion sweet, but

Vega. The same bucas Vega who had tried countless times to piss me off, tease me, taunt me, and do everything

me, trying to comfort me, but all the while my stubborn mind couldn't get past the fact he had lied and hid this from me for four

the Alpha's daughter. No way in hell was I going to let some bad boy come into my

pulled from my thoughts and jumped back from his touch. The recoil caused him to growl as his eyes narrowed in my direction. "Don't do

you?" I sneered. "If I

with his eyes

he watched me. "I knew from the moment I met you that you were going to be feisty, and even when I found out you