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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Chapter 139

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

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

curl into ant involuntary smile;

him. “You just stand there

remains. “Okay.”

opening a portal to the past. My hands

concentrate.

when Lucas‘ parents were fighting Lucian. It

try to focus

me. “A portal is beginning to open… keep it up,

bones and a wave of nausea that sweeps

Sky!” Lucas exclaims.

the portal.

laughs. “Maybe we should try walking through it before we

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ourselves in the same mansion, but back before you existed, and um…how do we explain

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

Mom…”

your

“She would probably pass out from shock…”

I chew nervously at the inside of my ch*ek, looking from Lucas to the swirling portal. The idea of meeting Lucas’s

him.

inhaling deeply, “we tell them the

my hand. “That’s the spirit, Sky.

this.”

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 it takes a moment to get my

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