Chapter 269

At first, I think I can’t have heard that correctly.

“I’m sorry, did you say she’s your mate?” I repeat with a bewildered shake of my head.

I didn’t realize Ryker and Karolina even knew each other.

They certainly haven’t made their relationship public knowledge, and I wonder why that is.

“Yes, it’s true,” Ryker says, going to pour himself a second

drink. “You are surprised. I was also, when I first came to this

country and met her.”

I want to ask so many questions, but I keep my mouth shut.

It’s not really any of my business, and it may not have any bearing on what’s happening within the Council and what happened to Aaron.

Then again, it might have everything to do with it.

“Though we are mated, it has been somewhat contentious,” Ryker continues, and I’m glad he’s giving some explanation, so I’m not left with something else I need to dig into. “I don’t

agree with much of what your Council and Karolina does and believes. They have strayed too far from the Old Ways.

Meanwhile, Karolina believes I am stuck in the past and

the traditions that don’t serve us any longer in this modern

who are we

chaos, and

be mates, it is

sorry to hear that, Ryker,” I murmur, and I actually mean

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of the spectrum who are enemies or can’t see eye

that is what’s happened for Ryker and Karolina, and I can only imagine how difficult it must be.

you, maybe never even like you, let alone love you, or break the bond and risk never having another mate in your

get second

but I’ve never met

been blessed

Leah Luna,” Ryker says, clearly

we’ve lost Aaron, you’ve come to ask my help in tracking down the missing Al technology your father and brother were

stop dead in my tracks

I demand, wondering–not for the first time–if Ryker has the ability to straight up read people’s minds like it’s rumored the Alphas

able to

on the problem a few weeks

end to my question

mind–reading.

reply, wondering why Aaron never mentioned it. Maybe he just forgot with everything else going

safe by

need you to

it hasn’t already–and I have

“Aaron had

before Tobin’s death–that the

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