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Not particularly. Maybe it would’ve been a dream for some women, but not for me.
Still, the idea was more appealing than that of returning home. If I did, I’d simply be driving back to my apartment and resuming my search for a job I didn’t particularly want, while trying not to let my mind linger too long on the pain of my loss.
I had known I was going to end up alone for many years. My grandpa’s passing had been slow and peaceful, but my grandma’s cancer hadn’t taken her quickly, or painlessly. As much as I missed her, I was glad she was done suffering.
But the ache of their absence hurt constantly.
At least in Evare, I wasn’t on my own.
As much as I had been disagreeing with Ivaylo, I sort of… well, enjoyed the disagreements.
That was probably a terrible thing to admit. But, it was the truth.
I made my way back to the bed and looked around the room. More of the huvim had floated in while we slept, and some had even started gravitating toward me. I still eyed them suspiciously when they came too close, but I loved the light they produced, so I couldn’t exactly retaliate.
And besides, I didn’t want them dead.
I just wanted them not to get quite so close to me.
At least they made it possible for me to see the entirety of the space—though my vision already seemed much clearer than it had the night before.
“Can you see in the dark?” I asked Ivaylo.
“Of course.” He glanced over his shoulder, and his eyes slowly swept over my figure. All I had on was his massive shirt, so there was plenty to see. Its bottom hem fell to the middle of my thighs, and the sleeves ended below my elbows, but the fabric was soft enough that I was pretty sure he could see the outline of my body as it draped over me.
And if not my body, at least the points of my damn nipples.
The glow around me rippled, and Ivaylo’s glow swelled before he turned away.
“You don’t plan on staying in this cave all day, do you?” I asked him.
“Den,” he corrected me. “Yourden. And no, I’ll have to face my pack at some point. My betas will be running damage control, but there’s only so much they can do considering the situation. You will need to meet them, and I will need to fight.”
My eyes widened. “Your betas? What does that mean? And why would you need tofight?”
“A wolf pack is led by an alpha or alpha pair. The alpha is supported by betas. I am the alpha, and you are my mate.”
My eyes widened further. “You expect me to become awerewolf alphawith you?”
He shot me a frown. “What’s a werewolf?”
At least he was finally the one asking a question.
“It doesn’t matter.” I brushed hair from my eyes, itching for something to tie it back with. “You expect me to become an alpha?”
“Yes. Fate selected you.”
“Fate can be wrong though, can’t it?” I asked.
“No.”
“What do you mean,no? Fate can’t always be right.”
He was silent for a moment, and the smell of whatever he was cooking was so incredible, it nearly made me drool.
“Fate matches the most compatible bodies and souls,” he finally said. “I have never heard of it being wrong.”
“But you haven’t had compatible women in hundreds of years, right?” I countered.
