Chapter 269

At first, I think I can’t have heard that correctly.

“I’m sorry, did you say she’s your mate?I repeat with a bewildered shake of my head.

I didn’t realize Ryker and Karolina even knew each other.

They certainly haven’t made their relationship public knowledge, and I wonder why that is.

“Yes, it’s true,” Ryker says, going to pour himself a second

drink. “You are surprised. I was also, when I first came to this

country and met her.”

I want to ask so many questions, but I keep my mouth shut.

It’s not really any of my business, and it may not have any bearing on what’s happening within the Council and what happened to Aaron.

Then again, it might have everything to do with it.

“Though we are mated, it has been somewhat contentious,” Ryker continues, and I’m glad he’s giving some explanation, so I’m not left with something else I need to dig into. “I don’t

what your Council and Karolina does and believes. They

believes I am stuck

traditions that don’t serve us any longer in this

traditions, who are we as a species? In the

there is chaos,

proves that. So yes, while we might be mates, it is

I murmur, and

  1. it.

the spectrum who are enemies or can’t see eye to eye on the important things, and I wonder

and Karolina, and I can

like you, let alone love you, or break the bond and risk never having another mate in your life

get second

happening, but I’ve

who has been blessed

Leah Luna,” Ryker says, clearly ready to change

“I assume now that we’ve lost Aaron, you’ve come to ask my help in tracking down the missing Al technology your father and brother were foolishly responsible for creating.”

in my

the ability to straight up

able to

me in on the problem a

end to

mind–reading.

wondering why Aaron never mentioned it. Maybe he just forgot with everything else going on around

Ethan safe by keeping

everything I need you to know.

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