Jack POV
He was not going to sleep inside the Beta’s suite, he just couldn’t be anywhere near Maria. Didn’t want to be mated to her at all right this minute and he knew it. Didn’t even care that it would be completely suspicious behaviour. Not even Rafe had tried to convince him to go to the Beta suite. Wasn’t likely to with all they had just heard.
What they understood of their so-call Mates.
He’d eaten his dinner in the Alpha’s Office at his desk, had outright declined Maria’s invitation to have dinner with her, in their suite, as she’d put it, something nice and intimate, her voice held a sexy seductive tone and she was implying that s*x was on the table. Not that he had any interest in that with her.
He had told her simply that he was too busy. Prepping for the allied Alpha’s arriv
