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I groaned. “She’s awful.”
“Agreed.” He kissed my lips, lingering there for a moment. “Sleep, mate.”
Chapter Eighteen
The students were free to choose where we spent our study hall period. I chose the library most of the time. My skin tingled as someone came in but it wasn’t one of my mates.
Minx, without her mates.
I turned back to my studies, but she sat across from me with a great exhale.
“Hey,” I said. “What’s going on?”
She tied her hair up and then laid her head on the desk, arms flopping down on either side of her. “I have things to say to you.”
“Say them. You’re making me nervous.” I hated when people said they needed to talk to me or they had something to discuss.
“Making you nervous?” She sat up straight. “I’m a fucking wreck.”
I reached between us and took his hands. Shifters leaned into touch and, since I had a feeling Minx had something heavy to say to me, it seemed natural.
“I thought only my mates could do that,” she said.
Or sisters, maybe? “Speak to me.”
She nodded. “I talked to my mom last night.” Releasing my hands, she rested hers in her lap. “I didn’t do a lot of talking. She actually took over right away. It was so weird, like she had prepared a speech ahead of time or something.”
I didn’t respond, giving her space to continue. She needed to get through this.
“My mom told me that my father isn’t my biological father,” she blurted. A blanket of relief pulled over me. It was one thing to know the truth, but there was a release in hearing someone else confirm what you already knew to be real. Especially in this situation. Still, I felt for Minx. I had been where she was. Questioning everything in her life. Every moment with her father. Wondering if he loved her or if he was simply going through the motions.
I wanted to walk over and hug her, but I refrained. We weren’t there yet.
“She said that she had a true mate, but he left her once she was pregnant with me.”
I gasped. What a horrible thing to be told or to experience. I thought about my mates. It would shatter me for one of them to reject me or leave me.
My wolf howled inside me at the thought.
“True mates separating from each other is rare.” I leaned back in my chair. The world and the other students moving around us ceased to exist. My sister was in pain. Though we barely knew each other, there was a connection between us. The last thing I wanted was for her to hurt.
“Yes. She didn’t go into detail. Gods, her voice was so cold as she explained all this.” She paused, looking away from me. “Anyway, she met my dad, and he was kind enough to mate her even though she was pregnant with another man’s child.”
We sat together for a while before I blurted, “Did she say anything about your biological father?” I was careful with my words. The last thing she needed was a wound from me in addition to the ones she was still nursing.
“She said he was an original shifter. I don’t know what the hell that means, and none of my mates do either.”
“Original? Like the first shifter? How old is our father?” I laughed a bit.
Minx soon joined me. “Ancient. I mean, the original shifter? I didn’t learn anything about that in shifter history. Have you?”
“No. Did you ask her what that meant?”
She nodded. “I did. Didn’t get an answer. She hung up soon after. It was like talking to a stranger.”
“No name?” I asked.
“Godrick. She called him Godrick.”
