Me
 
 The garden is too open
 
 Too many ears
 
 Aspen
 
 I’m in the throne room. Meet down here instead?
 
 Me
 
 Will Enzo leave?
 
 Aspen
 
 Yeah, he’s going to start on dinner. We just finished the last appointment for the day
 
 Me
 
 I love you
 
 Aspen
 
 Shh, my mate’s getting jealous
 
 Syd
 
 Lol
 
 I’m on my way
 
 Me
 
 Same
 
 See you in a few
 
 Just before I put my phone in my pocket, it buzzed, and I looked down to see a text from Hunter.
 
 Hunter
 
 You’ve been invited to view the Six Week Meeting Schedule
 
 My throat swelled.
 
 He wasn’t messing around. Which meant I was really going to have to go to a meeting or two that night.
 
 With men I could mate with.
 
 Crap.
 
 five
 
 NOVA
 
 Enzo and Aspenwere talking about whether or not they should try adding an extra meeting of their own to their daily schedule when I stepped into the throne room.
 
 It wasn’t really a throne room, but that was what everyone had taken to calling it. Enzo and Aspen didn’t want to spend all day sitting in desk chairs while she turned people, so they’d built what basically resembled a large, professional living room. It was only a few doors down from their apartment.