Page 53 of The Last Ultimatum: Part 1

It was true, though now that I wasn't in a lust filled stupor and could think a bit more clearly, it was probably for the best that we hadn't gone through with it.

I stared at the window. Nothing I saw through it looked real. None of this felt real either.

Lachlan wrapped an arm around me and sank against him.

“We're going to get through this and someday look back and laugh.”

“Maybe,” I said. “I'm not trying to be difficult, it's just. . .”

“I know. This is a lot. I thought that helping my friends through it would somehow prepare me better, but it hasn't. I'm not sure anything can really prepare you for this.”

I nodded.

As we started a harder descent, I grabbed onto his arm for dear life.

“I'm scared,” I confessed.

“We're fine. Westin Force employs the best pilots in the world. They'll get us there safe. I promise.”

“Not just that.”

I turned and looked up to meet his eyes. I was terrified of so much more than this plane.

He leaned in and kissed my forehead. That simple gesture shouldn't have made everything right again, yet somehow it did.

“Do you really think you’ll find my sister?”

He nodded. “I really do, but I also don't want to make you promises I may not be able to keep. There's a lot in this that is out of my control.”

“I know.”

“I'm gonna try everything I can to bring her home safely.”

“And save my Tribe and the others too?”

“Yeah.”

“You're kind of like a superhero.”

He grimaced. “No, not that.”

“Why do you say it like that?”

“Because the superhero never really gets the girl, and I fully intend to.”

I barely noticed the slight bump upon landing as I stared up at him.

I wanted to tell him that I hoped he'd get the girl too, but I wasn't in a place to make that promise. I still hadn't talked to my dad to find out what was really going on and why he was asking me to mate Aiden. But if even part of what Lachlan had shared with me was true, then I knew I had a duty to my Tribe before my heart, and that meant I may have to give up this man that made me feel so many wonderful unfamiliar things.

I said a quick prayer that it wouldn't come to that, but for now, it probably was for the best that we had been interrupted and hadn't taken things too far.

Much to my surprise, landing wasn't bad at all. The relief I felt being back on ground overshadowed my concerns about my future.

“What happens now?”

“As a precaution we'll be taking the long way there from here.”

“What does that mean?”

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