For the record, it doesn’t scare me that I’m his true mate. In fact, it makes me want to float up into the clouds and dance in the sky for the world to see.
Unfortunately, I don’t get much of a chance to linger on my glee.
“Now that that’s settled,” he says in that deep, husky, sexy voice of his, “can we please get back to the point?”
I smile sheepishly as he gives me a short, sweet kiss on the lips and releases my face. “I guess.”
“Good.” Without turning away from me, he raises his voice and hollers, “Lucy, you can come back in now.”
Lucy re-enters the room with a pleasant expression on her face, not seeming bothered by the boy at least thirty years her junior bossing her around.
“You said Aidan manipulated his own venom to do something different to her. Did you figure out what—or w
