Jessica was sitting on her mate’s lap. Her own mate lap. She could not believe it. She had travelled far and wide. She had searched for him for a long time, had given up only to see him when she was not searching for him at all. When it was a dangerous time to have someone other than yourself to be scared for. To think of protecting.

He took another deep inhale of her skin, his nose has been buried in her neck since he sat her down on his lap, and she couldn’t even squirm because of the ticklish sensation. Not if she wanted to remind him that as...