Briars POV
I sat in stunned silence, trying to process everything. Bomb shell after bomb shell seemed to have exploded in front of me. But the one I can't stop thinking about has my lady parts tingling. Xavier f*****g Blackwood is my mate. I love you, Moon Goddess. I have been mated to the sexiest hunk of manhood to ever walk the earth, and just as important, the nicest, most genuine person I will ever meet, but I will not feel the mate bond for another two and a half years, thirty months, one hundred and twenty-one weeks, arrrr, how can he be expected to wait that long for me?
"Kitten, it's OK, I know you don't feel the mate bond, but you will when you are 18. I do not expect anything from you. I just had to tell you, I needed you to understand why I need to be close to you, protect you
