Tobias wasn’t about to confuse the little Princess with his current struggles. He couldn’t do that without betraying his mate’s secret anyway, and there was no way he would ever do that to Penelope. Now that he wasn’t so pissed off, he could see things from Penelope’s side. She’d trusted him enough to tell him the biggest secret that she had...well, he assumed that was the biggest secret she had anyway. Her timing was shitty, and she really should have told him about it before marking him, but it couldn’t have been easy to tell him something like that knowing who he was and what pack he was with. If their roles had been reversed, he wasn’t sure what he’d have done.
The mate pull was strong; only a month ago he’d been sure he would reject his fated mate. Now his skin itched to be in conta
