“Fine, we can visit her together when we’ve decided on a date.” He moves away from the wall and puts an arm around me. “How does that sound?”
“It sounds like my mom will be calling you a lot, asking when we’re having kids next.”
He laughs. “Well, maybe we should figure that out before we visit her, too.”
He’s joking. I think. Either way, it gives me warm, fuzzy feelings inside.
“Okay, that’s a conversation for a later date,” I tell him.
“Much later, or …”
He’s teasing. He’s definitely teasing.
“Much later,” I confirm. “Zoey might be remembering things, and she isn’t trying to run away right now, but that might change if she catches us talking weddings and babies.”
There’s no way she’ll be fully on board with that stuff straight away.
“Don’t worry. I don’t plan on doing anything that might freak her out.”
“You mean besides kidnapping her?” I ask, raising an eyebrow.
He laughs. “Besides that.”
Chapter Fifty-Three
Zelena
Since I already know making myself come doesn’t help sate the urges that being around fated mates bring out, I avoid the temptation to touch my throbbing clit in the shower. I just rinse away my slick and clean myself up with the scent-free soap that’s in the room.
I take my time, making sure my perfume is under control before I dry off and put my clothes back on.
The guys who brought me out here wanted me to remember my past, and they definitely helped me to do that, but all it’s really given me are more questions.
Zane told me he has answers, but is that just to get me to stay out here with them?
I don’t think he would have kidnapped me if there was another option, but I’m also not sure he’ll let me go if I ask. He’s been so determined to find me, and he actually got past my security team to get to me.
I wonder how he’ll take it when I tell him I have a mate I don’t want to leave, and that mate has an Alpha who expects to meet me and mark me as theirs.
That marking is probably a long way off, but I’m in love with Russ, and I’ve been attracted to Archer ever since I met him. It feels like it could work.
Finding out I have two more fated mates makes me anxious.
I don’t know how my past can fit together with what I already have.
It’s like a mismatched puzzle that I need to find a way to put together.
It feels like I’m going to have to choose, and I don’t know how to do that.
Now that I remember everything, I know I’m supposed to be with Zane and Dale.
They were there for me when I was a kid, and they never gave up hope when I went missing.
It’s crazy how long they spent looking while I was living a different life in another town, under a new name with parents who probably paid for me to be theirs.
I mean, if there’s another reason I was taken from my home and given to those people, I don’t know what it could be. They probably thought they were so rich they could buy a kid, and no one told them not to do it.
They have some seriously shady security guys. I could see one of those guys asking how much they were willing to pay, for sure.