Chapter 139

Skylar

“It’s going to be so weird seeing my parents when they were younger…” Lucas says, rubbing his chin. “My Dad looks the same, though. He stopped aging, but my Mom is in her early twenties or something? That’s going to be weird. I’m used to her being a cougar…”

“A cougar?” consider my curiosity piqued. “You mean to tell me your Mom didn’t always date a younger man?”

Lucas laughs. “My Dad is actually the older one, but, like I said, he stopped aging. He doesn’t like it, though.”

“Why not?”

“It makes Mom unhappy when younger women try to hit on him because they think she is too old for him.”

“Well, that’s rude… And wait, I thought everyone in the pack knew they were fated mates. I mean, hello, both of your parents have been Alphas.”

“Yeah, no one in the pack would dare to flirt with my Dad, but I’m talking

about human women.”

“Oh…” I look down at the floor, unsure what to say next, while my mind spins. Is Lucas going to stop aging, too? Am I going to share the same future as his Mom?

F*ck, I hope not. I don’t want to be a cougar–not that I have anything against older women dating younger men, I just…. Lucas looks better than me already, and adding wrinkles to my face wouldn’t be good for my self- confidence.

‘Better hope that well water your sister went looking for works,’ Jinx

comments.

‘For sure.’

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interrupts my thoughts by clapping his hands together. “You ready to send

say with more bravado than I feel. The truth. is, I’m terrified. What if I send us to the wrong timeline or something?

beside. me, his strong body exuding warmth. I feel my lips curl into ant involuntary smile; he has this infectious energy that makes fear seem like the most trivial matter in the world. “What do you

“You just stand there and

remains. “Okay.”

the past. My hands are sweaty, yet I grab Lucas’s

concentrate.

go back and picture a time when Lucas‘ parents were fighting Lucian. It was over

teeth as I try to focus my magic. It’s dizzying. A portal has never needed this much energy to be opened.

me. “A portal is beginning to open…

and a wave of nausea that sweeps

Lucas exclaims. “You did it!”

the portal. “I…I really opened a portal to the

“Maybe we should try walking through

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ourselves in the same mansion, but

amazing magic exists, so why don’t we just tell them the truth? My Dad would believe me.

Mom…”

about your

grimaces. “She would probably

the inside of my ch*ek, looking from Lucas to the swirling portal. The idea of meeting Lucas’s parents, who don’t know

him.

“we tell them

my hand. “That’s

this.”

at breakneck speed and then suddenly being snapped back into place. When we

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