“I still can’t believe that you of all people have a mate, and that it’s not me, you know?” Rieka Howard shot the Alpha King a smile, her eyes shining with a little hint of sadness. “One would think that in the unlikely (now likely) case of Lykens ever being paired with fated mates, that we’d be chosen given our past history, but I guess it was never meant to be. And the fact that it had to be a human, nonetheless. Simply amazing. I mean, what were the odds?”
Reed was silent, not really knowing what to say to that. What he wanted most was to hit the gym, or at least the sparring room to get rid of everything he was feeling, which if he was being honest, was becoming a bit too much to handle… but he had been extremely rude to his spoken for, and the very least he could do was sit with her
