Page 99 of Love Bites Extra Hard

*Or if everything goes right

I bit my lip, fighting another smile

Me

Do you all like having mates?

I know you do, but… would I like having a mate?

Izzy

Yes

Zora

If you like hot sex and having someone to snuggle with at any given time, you’ll like having a mate

Blair

I love it

It means you have your best friend around all the time

Nothing is better

My teeth dug deeper into my lip.

Me

What if they change over time, and you fall out of love?

Izzy

Then you hang out more until you fall back in love

Have enough fun together, and you’ll remember why you liked each other in the first place, or find new reasons to

Blair

Everyone changes over time

Having a partner just means that you change together, and agree to love whoever that person becomes

Me

What if they become abusive?

We’re basically prey, and they’re kings

Zora

No one can see the future, but if something like that ever happened, you know we would stop it

And the rest of the kings would take down anyone who hurt one of us, even if he was one of them

My throat swelled.

Honestly?

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