But Mira had told me previously that she didn’t want to know the truth about her mate bond. She wanted a family with Aiden, and I would respect her wishes. Mira could make her own decisions, and as her best friend, I would always support her in whatever she did. “Enough about me,” Mira said into the silence. “How are you doing? How are you and Kaden? Have you talked to Wesley lately?" I sat down on a fallen tree branch and stretched my legs out in the snow. "A lot has happened since I talked to you last." I started telling her a condensed version of events that had happened since I’d last seen her, ending with the fact that Kaden and I were now officially mated, and I was the Ophiuchus pack alpha female. “Wow," she said when I was finished. "I’d heard about the Convergence from some of

