Page 39 of Their Promise

“You guys have been constantly busy, so why are you staying here?” I asked.

He looked at me like that was a stupid question. “We came to claim our mate, to finalize that promise we made, remember?”

Oh, right.

“I—”

He put his finger over my lips and shook his head. “Your parents are right. We need to prove to you that we’re your best choices. And to get to know each other again after being apart for so long.”

Opening the back passenger door, he waited until I climbed in before closing my door and getting in on the opposite side.

“You two have fun?” Ezio asked as he started the SUV.

We both nodded.

“Good. Where to now?”

“Home,” Mason said. “We have adult responsibilities to get back to.”

“Well, you do,” I countered. “I’m going to go home and take a nap.”

He rolled his eyes at me and a small smile appeared at my teasing.

Our ride home was just as silent as the trip out, but this time it was a more comfortable silence.

He helped me carry my bags of gifts into the house and up to my room. Pausing at my desk, he glared at the calendar book Mom had left there.

“Thanks for today,” I said to distract him. “It was fun.”

He turned around to face me and said, “Don’t forget to send back that douche’s earrings.”

“I don’t see why you’re so adamant I send back a birthday gift, but I’ll do it.” I had already planned to just throw away the hotel key.

“I had fun today and I’d like to do it again. Find an open date on your calendar and add my name to it and text me. Oh, and can you unblock our numbers now?”

Pulling out my cell, I let him watch as I unblocked their numbers, confirming that Trey was right and I had blocked all of them. “Done.”

He gave me a full smile, kissed my cheek, and said, “See you later, Lily gator.”

Before I could respond, he was jogging out the front door.

That phrase, that silly, childish phrase was the one he’d said to me when we’d said goodbye when I’d gone to college. It was a phrase he only said to me when we were alone, too silly for him to say in front of his friends.

And it made my heart pound to hear again.

Flopping down onto my bed, I smiled up at the ceiling. Even with the demon attack and my emotional outburst and insanity, today had been a great day.

I just hoped the other days were just as awesome.

Chapter

Eleven

Instead of mailing the earrings and hotel key back to Luca, Bran Bran had demanded to personally deliver them and there was nothing I could say to stop him.

Mom just sighed and shook her head as I tried to convince him otherwise and I’d finally given up, letting him do what he wanted.

After my date with Mason, I went on the date with the gay alpha who had thanked me several times for at least going out once with him and had promised that I could call on him for a favor at any time. He was very sweet and we had a lot of similar tastes in music and movies, so the date had gone by amazingly well.

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