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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clapping his hands together. “You ready to

feel. The truth. is, I’m terrified. What if I send

drawls, flashing me a smile. He stretches out 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

just stand there

remains.

imagining myself opening a portal to the past. My hands are sweaty, yet I grab Lucas’s

concentrate.

picture a time when Lucas‘ parents were fighting Lucian. It was over eighteen years ago before Lucas was brought into

try to focus my magic. It’s dizzying. A portal has

Lucas tells me. “A portal is beginning to open… keep

bones and a wave of nausea that sweeps through me, I finally manage to create the portal.

shit, Sky!” Lucas exclaims. “You did

portal. “I…I really opened a portal

walking through

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and say everything goes according to plan, then we will find ourselves in the same mansion, but back before you existed, and um…how do we explain that to your

says, scratching the stubble on his chin thoughtfully. “My parents know amazing magic exists, so why don’t we just tell them the truth? My

Mom…”

your

probably

idea of meeting Lucas’s parents, who don’t know about Lucas, is daunting. But if he thinks they will

him.

“we tell them the

takes my hand. “That’s the

this.”

is a jarring one. It feels like being flung sideways at breakneck speed and then suddenly being snapped

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