Page 39 of My Mate

Forever.

Casey opened her eyes, and she couldn’t believe it.

“Dex!”

He stopped. “What? What is it?”

“I … I think I hear my wolf?” She frowned and looked at him.

“What?”

“I know it’s crazy, but I think I just heard her.”

“What did she say?”

“She … you’re ours, and that you’re our mate, forever.”

“Are you sure you didn’t just think that?”

“I know what I heard and I know what I feel.” She nibbled her lip. “It could have been my wolf, right?”

He cupped her cheeks and then took possession of her lips. “Always. She could be there, always.”

She smiled at him. “I know it’s crazy.”

“No, it’s not crazy. It’s not crazy at all.”

What did this mean? If her wolf had finally started to talk to her, what did it mean?

Chapter Ten

Three Days Later

“Is there a reason we’re prowling the forest?” Dex asked.

“One of Newman’s kids said he saw a body out near the lake. We’re coming to check it out.”

“Newman’s kids? Aren’t they like ten years old? Why didn’t they come and check it out or something?”

Klaus sighed. “I guess it freaked them out. Not many kids have seen a body.”

Dex frowned. “But it would have to be one of the wolves. We don’t have hunters coming through here.”

“True, unless Lucinda’s shield has been affected, but I doubt that because it would have happened long before now.”

He agreed with his father. In the last eighteen years, not even a single traveling human had broached this forest. From what Lucinda had told him, humans tend to get an uneasy feeling when they’re close, and try to avoid the forest at all costs.

Dex didn’t understand how the magic worked, only that it did, and he wasn’t going to be the one arguing about it.

They made their way to the lake, and he couldn’t help but think about Casey. She’d been so excited the past couple of days, as she’d been enjoying rare glimpses of her wolf. She asked him not to say anything to their parents, and he promised he wouldn’t. He was nervous about it.

In Lucinda’s shared vision, at no point was it even hinted that Casey would know her wolf. Did this mean the future had already been changed? What had altered their path? He had no way of knowing anything, but he had promised himself a visit to Lucinda’s to try and make sense of what is going on.

“Do you think it is a dead body?”

“Nah, probably a rabbit.”

“The size of a body?”

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