We all began eating in silence. “So dear, Dane wouldn’t tell me anything about you, but he did ask that I help explain some things to you.” I looked at Dane in surprise. He had kept his promise not to tell anyone. He winked at me with a smile on his face, “How much do you know about werewolves?” his mother continued, not paying any attention to her son. “Well, ma’am, I just recently found out that werewolves are real, and I’m pregnant by one. And I keep hearing the word mate a lot, it seems.” I was honest with her, but I didn’t open up to her as I had with Dane.
“Please, call me Adria, dear. Where have you heard the word mate from?” she asked me. I laughed nervously, “The first time I heard it was from my ex—evidently, I’m not his mate, so I can’t have his baby—and then Dane has told me a
