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“Last night?” I chuckled and leaned against the doorway. “How in the world do you remember last night?”
“Don’t you?”
I shrugged. “Blips.”
I sipped espresso while grabbing things from the fridge. Edward and I had taken some private cooking lessons on the off chance we found a mate and wanted to impress her, but now we cooked for each other, taking turns in the kitchen.
Even while traveling the world, we would always opt for a home-cooked meal instead of a restaurant—even the best ones in the world.
Okay, maybe not all of them.
I whipped the eggs with milk. It would take a good amount of fat and protein to fend off this woozy feeling, and French toast would be perfect. With the French toast on the built-in griddle on the island where Edward sat, he picked up his phone after it pinged. Nothing new.
But after putting in the passcode, he turned paler than I’d ever seen him. He said nothing. He would tell me when he was ready.
I turned the breakfast out onto two plates, divided evenly, and went back into the pantry to get the creamed honey.
My bear approved.
“Ansel,” Edward said, looking up from his phone. His tone was way off.
“What?” I asked, buttering and honeying my French toast. My stomach rumbled at the aroma.
“We have a match.”
“Yeah. By the fireplace in the living room.” I rolled my eyes. Clearly his espresso wasn’t cutting it.
“Not matches, Ansel. A match. On the app.”
I took a large bite and groaned as the richness of the toppings perfected the egg-dipped bread. “What app?”
He passed me his phone. “The app we signed up for last night. The mating app.”
Flashes of the night before came back to me. I’d moaned and groaned about wanting and needing a mate. We’d signed up for an app to find one.
At least, that’s what I thought we did.
“What am I looking at?”
“A notification of a match. The app found us a potential mate.”
I swallowed against the rock now in my throat. My heart beat so loudly that it overpowered the landscaping team and their machines working right outside. “Who is it?” I asked, handing him the phone back with a shaky grip.
“Come sit next to me. We’ll click on it together. Besides, you’ve gone green at the gills. I’m afraid you might pass out.”
I sat next to him, bringing my coffee for emotional support. “Let’s see.”
Edward pressed the button on his phone, and a little envelope popped up on the screen. It congratulated us with some animated fanfare, congratulating us on our first match. “Who is it?”
We clicked on the profile, and I nearly choked on my breath. The woman’s shiny blonde hair fell in waves over her shoulders. Gold flecks sparkled in her blue eyes, making my chest constrict.
The female was gorgeous by all standards. My bear roared inside me.
He wanted her.
“It’s her.” I struggled to maintain some sense of mental stability. After all these years. All the countries and continents. The one we’d been waiting for. Had she been on this app all along? No, she was too young for that. Could someone else have been matched with her? My bear growled at that idea, and not in a happy way. “What’s her name?”
“Monroe. She’s a barista. Loves to read, and she has a cat. No education listed. Only her preferences. She’s human.”
