River
I smile at my mother. She’s been sitting with me for the last ten minutes, but she hasn’t said anything. Mom asked me if we could go to the bedroom to talk privately. I wasn’t sure about leaving Damian with my dad and brothers. No, I don’t, for one second, think my family will say anything to upset Damian. They’re not like that. My family has always been super supportive of everything about me, and I know that includes my mate. But it doesn’t mean one of them won’t accidentally annoy Damian. I could see how tense he was when I walked into the room earlier. But I couldn’t tell why.
Regardless of that, I couldn’t say no to my mom. She’s everything to me, and if she wanted a moment alone, then I would give her that. Damian kissed me and told me to go ahead and that he would be just fi
