ELOISE
I could hardly believe that I was doing it. Coming out clean. "I don't have a choice," I told Fergus.
"He's threatening you?"
Well, that part was not wrong but I wished that was truly all there was to it. However, that was not the case and someone deserved to know. Now more than ever. The bond between Matthan and I was not something I had intended to hide from my parents but I had believed it would scare them. The concept of mates and werewolves seemed all too complicated but now, that wedge was gone. They knew it all. No point hiding it now.
"Matthan is my mate," I confessed. It was no easier saying the words aloud than it had been thinking them.
I expected some negative reaction; maybe an overreacting gasp but that did not happen. Instead, they simply nodded solemnly as if th
