Jacob was truthfully telling me I was his fated mate.
That he wanted me.
But now, a thousand new questions burned inside me.
Questions I wasn’t sure I had the courage to ask — but knew I needed to.
I tightened my fingers around his just a little and looked up at him, feeling the fear and wonder battling in my chest.
“Jacob…”
My voice cracked slightly, but I pushed through it.
“What exactly… are you? I mean—your position. How important are you?”
Because it couldn’t be normal for someone to move entire teams, pull strings in a mental institution, and make CEOs sign off on secret deals.
It didn’t seem like something any regular man could do — not even in the world I had woken up into.
His lips lifted in a faint, almost guilty smile, and he rubbed the back of his neck in that boyish
