The drive back is quiet but not awkward, just a comfortable silence. I believe me marking him suddenly made everything more real. It was, in a sense, easy to play off that he is my mate, easier to deny our bond or our weak one anyway. Now though, people would find out, the entire city would realize Valen had been marked, the paparazzi would go berserk, and I now I worried what that meant for Valarian. I could handle the drama's the media would portray.
Valarian is still a child and I know once it was out, a lot of people would have something to say about it. Also, I could already imagine the rumors. That he knocked up some rogue w***e and was forced to take me as his mate, the things I could see them saying about me in papers would sting me but could damage my son. I was used to negativit
