~~Tristan’s PoV~~
The room goes deathly quiet as Bertie says the word 'mate'. Up until then, I was only half paying attention to the people around me, too busy linking with the guards to make sure that no one else had behaved suspiciously when they touched the disguised silver handle, but even above the voices in my head, Bertie’s hesitant proclamation burst through, getting my attention just as it gets everyone else’s.
The prince finding his mate is a big deal, not just for him but for the whole kingdom, and I certainly did not expect it to happen here in a roomful of Alphas.
Maybe his mate really is a man, like you were afraid yours was, Griffin suggests. Although, unlike you, I don’t think he would care.
He’s probably right about that, in the sense that Bertie has never discriminate
