Chapter 0735

I laugh. "You picked the wrong Sinclair boy if you didn't want to be teased," I say, grinning at her as I settle back into the cushions. "Mom and dad would have been far more polite."

Daphne sighs dramatically and gives a big shrug like it can't be helped. "I shall simply have to endure, then." She scoops Mittens up into her hands and lifts him to her shoulder, where he starts to bat playfully at her curls.

"Daph?" I ask quietly, studying her face. "Is...is Jesse your mate?"

She turns to me, her face quite solemn. "I honestly don't know, Ari."

My mouth twists a little. "I mean, you'd know," I say, trying to be gentle.

But she shakes her head, looking off into the kitchen, I think wanting mine and Jesse's mothers to be separate from this conversation. "I know what you mean but...it's more complicated than that," she murmurs. "The connection with him - it wasn't instant, and my wolf just...can't decide. It's not like other mates - the bond, if there is one, has not snapped into place. But the way we feel about each other? And the way he smells?" She groans and rolls her eyes, tilting her head back against the couch.

"Oh, you're exaggerating," I sigh, grinning and tilting my head back too. "Jesse smells like corn chips and despair."

"Oh, no he doesn't," she sighs. "He smells like a chai latte, and old books, and a warm old sweater..." "So, like wet wool?" I say, my face again twisting with doubt.

and swats at me. "Shut up. I

know my cousin has my whole heart. But, you're getting mixed messages? Like, half

she says,

half human? Or..." she shrugs. really don't know. I think that's why I tried to

her, terribly happy for my friend. "Good. I'm glad to have a

beams at me,

the first time

doesn't have his mark or a ring. Just his strange little half-substantial shadow cat, which is very

up in a

deep breath of her own pretty cinnamon scent, feeling

In the other

I hear the soft

mom and my

heart soars to think that I get to talk to him soon. And quite

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