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

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‘For sure.’

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thoughts by clapping his hands together. “You ready

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

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

stand there and leave

smile remains.

a portal to the past. My hands are sweaty, yet I grab Lucas’s hand and squeeze it as I

concentrate.

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

my eyes, I focus even harder and clench my teeth as I try to focus my magic. It’s dizzying. A portal has never needed this much energy to be

“A portal is beginning to

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

Lucas exclaims. “You

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

should try walking through it

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ourselves in the same mansion, but back before you existed, and um…how do we explain that to your parents?”

thoughtfully. “My parents know amazing magic exists, so why don’t we just tell them the truth? My

Mom…”

about your Mom?”

probably pass out

meeting Lucas’s parents, who don’t know about Lucas, is daunting.

him.

say, inhaling deeply, “we tell them

my hand. “That’s the spirit, Sky. Let’s do

this.”

breakneck speed and then suddenly being snapped back into place. When we emerge on the

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