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

hands together.

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

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 world. “What do

I tell him. “You just stand there and

remains.

to the past. My hands

concentrate.

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

to focus my magic. It’s dizzying. A portal has never needed this much energy to

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

and a wave of nausea that sweeps through me, I

shit, Sky!” Lucas exclaims. “You

and gaze at the portal. “I…I really

“Maybe we should try walking through it before we celebrate, yeah?”

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according to plan, then we will find ourselves in the same mansion, but back before you

don’t we just tell them the truth? My Dad would believe me. He is the calm and

Mom…”

your Mom?”

probably

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

him.

say, inhaling deeply, “we tell

beams at me and takes my hand.

this.”

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

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