“I want you to stop this. Go to school. Enjoy your…”

“Enjoy my youthful life, huh?" I helped him finish. "I don’t want any of that. I want nothing else but you.” I shifted closer to him. “I’m serious, Lake. I don’t care if I’m your mate.”

“Well, I do care.”

“Lake.”

“I can’t claim you. You are still a child, and I’m not a pedophile.”

“How are you a pedophile when you are my mate? There is nothing wrong with claiming me to be your mate right now.”

“Are you listening to yourself? You are sixteen years old, Aurora, and you still have a long way ahead of you....