“Ah, I wish the mate bond would activate for me,” Marla said, putting a hand to her chest. “I would kill to be his mate. He’s so strong and handsome.”
Stella made a choking noise, her nose wrinkling. “You do realize you’re talking about my brother, right?”
"And we'd all very much like to be your sister," Carly said with a laugh.
I grinned as I looked between them, shaking my head. For the first time ever, I didn’t feel like an outcast, and this wasn’t even my birth pack. But could this feeling last? What if they found out more about me—that half of me was human, or that my mate was a Leo—and changed their minds about me?
Kaden still stood at the grill, a beer in one hand, and flipping the meat with the other. Jack and another male shifter stood next to him, laughing about something. I
