JAKE

This could be tagged as the most important moment of my life, because all I had ever wanted more than anything was to let Phoenix know the truth. This truth. That she was our mate. Claudius and I had imagined the scenario a lot of times that night. Would she be angry? Would she be shocked? Would she be happy? We had planned how we were going to tell her, which made it easy to brace ourselves for whatever happened after.

But right now, reality was staring right at me. I was frozen to the spot, almost wishing one of my powers were to reverse the time. The next...