Nita Nita didn’t have the words to describe how she was feeling at this moment in time. She supposed that she should be elated at the prospect of meeting her one remaining family member. Instead, she was feeling sick to her stomach. A warm hand rested on her back, and she took a deep breath, enjoying the scent she’d come to recognise as completely Vic. And to say he thought that they weren’t properly mated, it was a scent that made her feel safer than she ever had before. Maybe Lia was on to something when she questioned if the false mating was really all that false. “Nita, it’ll be fine,” Vic said in her ear and she leaned back into him. “What if he doesn’t like me?” “Why wouldn’t he?” Vic asked, frowning down at her as if he genuinely couldn’t understand the concept. “He doesn’t kn

