His Plump Mate (Book 1: The 'His' Series) novel Chapter 700

Adrian POV

I feel like a complete monster. I had no control over myself. I almost took Sinclair against her will. I don’t understand what happened. My parents raised me better than that. What the hell happened in there?

Sinclair isn’t blaming me at all. She said that Mali was losing it, too. Thor wanted to mate with Mali. There was no situation where this would’ve ended well for either of us if she hadn’t opened that door—the door I refused to open.

“Adrian?” Sinclair called out as we were walking back to the pack house.

“Sinclair, I’m so sorry,” I said again.

“It’s over. Stop apologizing. I think there is something in that tunnel, though. The official reason was that the stability wasn’t good, but I’m wondering if it was actually mental stability. I’m going to find out. I will go back on my own tomorrow and get dirt samples.”

“No! That place is dangerous,” I said immediately.

“This is the first time that has ever happened, and I think it’s from exposure, but I’m not sure what kind of exposure. I need to figure this out, Adrian.”

“This never happened to you before?”

“No. I was even in there with Dad, and it didn’t happen.”

Oh, my Goddess. She was in here with my Dad?

“I’ve been in those passageways several times, and those urges never once happened. It only happened today, with you. Maybe it has something to do with us being mates or the mate bond specifically,” she theorized. “Either way, I need samples, and I need to figure this out. It’s on the Blackclaw territory side, too.”

I looked around, and she was right. We have something under our feet, and it’s on our soon-to-be pack lands. Maybe that’s why it stayed uninhabited.

“Let’s get back to the pack house,” I said, shifting into Thor, and Sinclair shifted into Mali.

We ran with everything we had to get back to the pack house. When we got back, we shifted back, and Aiden was coming back as well. He saw our faces and threw a shirt to Sinclair and a pair of shorts to me.

“You two alright?” Aiden asked.

“No,” I said seriously. “Do you know why Blackclaw was never purchased until now, Aiden?”

Aiden raised an eyebrow at me. “No. It stayed vacant.”

“Did you know there are passageways from Blackstone to Blackclaw?”

Aiden looked stunned to hear that. “No. I’d be interested to see it, though.”

“No!” Sinclair said quickly. “Not until I understand what the hell happened in there tonight.”

Aiden became very serious. “What happened?”

We explained it to him. Sinclair said she found out about the passageways by talking to Dad and reinforcing the routes. She mentioned how she had been there with Dad, on her own, and never had issues until I was with her tonight.

Then I explained that I couldn’t control myself. Mali took over, and so did Thor. I explained that everything intensified the closer we got to the Blackclaw side. Then Sinclair started explaining her theories but needed to go back for dirt samples.

By the time we were done explaining, Aiden looked at us with interest. “What if there is some compound down there? Something that heightens things for mate bonds could be an interesting discovery if harvested right.”

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