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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thoughts by clapping his hands together. “You ready to send us to the past,

say with more bravado than I feel. The truth. is, I’m terrified.

into ant involuntary smile; he has this infectious energy that makes fear seem like the most trivial matter in the world. “What do

just stand there and leave this

remains. “Okay.”

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

concentrate.

parents were fighting Lucian. It was over eighteen years ago before

as I try to focus my

“A portal is beginning to

of nausea that sweeps through me, I finally manage to

Lucas exclaims. “You did it!”

the portal. “I…I

should try walking through it before

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then we will find ourselves in the same

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

Mom…”

your

would probably pass out from

the inside of my ch*ek, looking from Lucas to the swirling portal. The idea of meeting Lucas’s parents, who don’t know about Lucas, is daunting. But if he thinks they will help us,

him.

“we tell

me and takes my hand. “That’s

this.”

through the portal is a jarring one. It feels like being flung sideways at breakneck speed and then suddenly being snapped back into place. When we emerge on the other side, I’m disoriented, and

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