ANYA'S POV "I know you are a vampire, Anya, and that is why I asked you if you have a mate, more specifically an Alpha mate," he dropped the bombshell, the words hanging heavy in the suddenly thick air between us. How did he know? The question clawed at my mind. Even I had only discovered this terrifying truth a mere freaking two days ago. He claimed to know me. Did that include everything I was, not just my origin? Was he a friend of Chase's? Impossible. None of Chase's friends would still be languishing in junior high. Even if Chase harboured some secret young friend somewhere, he wouldn't have divulged something so monumental as my being a vampire. He knew what I was made of. He knew my last name; perhaps he even knew my parents. But the most unsettling question of all was about my m

