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I shake my head. “It’s like nothing you’ve ever felt, man. Like, somehow, I know where she is. I know how she’s feeling. I know that she’s… mine.”
I can’t stand to be away from her right now. I slide over to the couch, slipping underneath her so I can cradle her in my arms.
She lets out a little puff of air, and the ermine glares at me before scrambling over to her feet.
He settles there, and if looks could kill, I’d be ermine food.
Off to the side, Evander is staring at her with something like awe in his eyes. “Thorne…”
“Yes?”
He looks over at me. “I’m so sorry. I’m so fucking sorry. I had no idea. If I had known…”
“Ev. You couldn’t have known.”
“But you did.”
I look over at him. “No. I really didn’t.”
He shakes his head. “You did. Whether or not it was conscious, you knew that she was your mate. That she was the one who was meant for you. Even though she’s human, you knew the whole time that she was the one for you.”
I shrug. “Ev, I didn’t know. I just knew that with her everything feels… right,” I end on a near whisper.
“I’m so fucking sorry, Thorne. I almost took you from her.”
I look down at where Iris is sleeping in my arms. Gently, I push a lock of her hair, so white it’s almost pale, out of her face.
“Somehow, Ev, I don’t think anyone could have kept us apart.”
He whistles. “Fated mates. Two pairs. And you weren’t even a hundred years after Gabe and Cara. What does it mean?”
I look up at him. “I have no idea.”
But it feels like hope.
We both stare at the woman in my arms. Evander shifts, and when I look up at him, there’s excitement in his eyes. “You still think this is your baby?”
I have no idea how to answer that question. “I just don’t understand how.”
Maybe there’s a reason. But every time I wrap my mind around it, the answer comes up the same.
Humans can’t have shifter babies.
And fated mates didn’t exist either.
He grins.
“You know who would know?”
I nod, picking up on what he’s saying. “The faerie woman.”
When I bought the town of Oakwood and the surrounding land, Evander and I found a little cabin there that hadn’t been included in the property maps. We, of course, decided to check it out before we bought the place.
To our shock, there had been a slight faerie woman inside.
Coral.
Apparently, her entire hive was murdered by lion shifters outside of her home in Seattle. She had been traveling at the time, which was fairly odd for a faerie, as they tended to be greatly rooted to locations. Their magic came from nature, and they didn’t like to move.
