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Thing was, I didn’t mind adding it to our list. It was this normal and very domestic activity—a nice balance to the chaos that had been the day. My brain had barely processed all the new information thrown at me, and my heart was too happy to have Nicholas back in my life that I didn’t care.
“Your mom is not my biggest fan,” he said as he opened his car door for me.
“You broke my heart.” I slid inside. I hated to be that blunt, but it was the reality, and while he might not have had a choice in it, that didn’t change how it impacted me. “She saw what that did to me.”
“I know.” He closed the door behind me.
He walked around and climbed in the other side. “I’ve thought a lot about it over the years. I didn’t know you were my mate, but I knew you were my best friend. And maybe on some level I did…what I’m trying to say is…”
I grabbed his hand and brought it to my cheek. “You do not need to say anything. We can’t undo the past, and really, there was nothing we could’ve done differently back then. Not really. Why don’t we just… not forget it, but maybe not dwell on it so much… not saying it’s wrong. But can we leave it to the side somehow and just start new?”
“I would like that.” He took his hand back and started the ignition. “We have many eyes on us,” he explained. “How about we go on this date? We’ve never been on a date before.”
“No. We haven’t. What should we do?” I had barely been on any date before. They always looked like fun in the movies, but real life didn’t work out like that. Based on my friends’ experiences, real dates were kind of boring.
“Priscilla’s, obviously.” He pulled out of the spot.
Priscilla’s was the local diner. Their food was legendary, and had been among one of the top things I missed about the town.
“Obviously?”
“Don’t you remember? When we were in middle school and George and Lily were ‘going out’? You said they weren’t really dating until they went to Priscilla’s. It was the height of dating in your eyes.”
I vaguely recalled saying that and definitely knew I had felt that way. I had no idea that Nicholas remembered.
“I’m not sure if we should take dating advice from a pre-teen.”
Nicholas laughed. “I’m not taking dating advice from a pre-teen, I’m taking dating advice from my mate.”
“What else do you remember about me?” There were so many things I remembered about him. The way he laughed. How he was a blanket hog. The way he had to pause movies when he left the room, even if it was for a second and he’d seen the movie a million times.
“I put five kinds of cereal on our grocery list because I know you like to mix them. You wake up at six ten on the dot without an alarm clock. You only like cartoons when they’re Christmas movies.”
“All of those things are accurate,” I said.
The town was small, so we were pulling into Priscilla’s within a few minutes. The second he had it in park, I launched at him.
I pressed my lips to his despite the gear shift that was digging into my hip. We’d take making out in the car out of the date lineup. This was not easy. Maybe if we moved to the backseat.
Nicholas took control of the kiss, adjusting my face with his hands and delving his tongue deeper into my mouth. I let him. I let him take the lead, place me wherever he needed. I loved every minute of it. The bedroom would probably be the same song and dance, me taking Nicholas’ lead.
“My alpha,” I whispered against his lips. I barely registered that I spoke out loud, but then he growled. The noise went straight to my cock. I had no idea animalistic noises could turn me on so much.
“We should eat,” he said.
“I kind of like what we’re doing now.” I pouted, full on sticking out my lower lip.
He nipped at it. “We’ll get there, mate. Let me take you on a proper date first. I want to.”
I grinned. “I suppose.” I knew I said the right thing, because it was like his wolf settled and I felt that same contentedness within myself.
“You feel him, don’t you?”
I nodded.
He kissed my lips. “My mate.”
Chapter Eight
