When You Were My Mate (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 71

Chapter 71

Demetra.

“A date?” Tiffany’s voice pitches up like I just told her I’m running away to join a circus.

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“A date.” I say it plain, but I can feel the heat creeping up my neck. The only reason I’m even telling her is because I need to slip out of this pack house without a hundred questions trailing ehind me, and she’s my best shot at a solid alibi. I need her to lie if anyone asks where I went.

“Hmm.” Tiffany circles my dressing room slow, dragging her finger along the vanity, then locks eyes with me in the mirror. She taps her jawline like she’s solving a case.

“I thought you said this would all end with a divorce. We literally just watched it on TV. Emris divorce is official, he sent Elena packing, taught her a very sweet lesson in the process. So again…” She leans against the wall. “A date?”

“Well.” I twist my fingers together, searching for something smart to say.

Nothing comes.

How do I explain to her that Emris and I have never been on a dite? All those years of being his secret, and he never once took me out, never once walked beside me where people could see. Yeah, we’ll never actually be together, maybe this whole thing falls apart the second I let myself want it, but there are things I have always wanted to try with him.

Just to know what it feels like.

“I told you…you’re gonna get twisted up in this.”

“I am not twisted. I promise… I still have my common sense.” I check my hair for the fifth time in ten minutes and my phone lights up on the vanity. It’s one message from Emris and it says. I’m here.

My stomach does something stupid.

“Anyway.” I clear my throat and grab a coat. “If Slade or Dad or Aunt Scotty or Amira or anyone else asks… just say Sabrina and I went out. Okay?”

“Fine, fine. I’ll do that. Just be careful, okay? Gosh, you and Emris are both acting like college kids, sneaking around and playing games.”

“Thanks.” I give myself one last look in the mirror.

Emris said he’s taking me shopping, but for now I’m in a simple wrap skirt that falls just above my knee and a square-neck top with short sleeves. Nothing that looks like I tried too hard but my hands are shaking a little anyway.

“You already look pretty,” Tiffany catches my reflection. “He’ll be an idiot if he doesn’t see that.”

I smile at her joke and slip out the door,

Amira’s off at a playdate with Luna Skyler’s daughter so there’s no chance of her calling for Mommy at the worst possible moment. Dad and Slade have been locked in pack discussions for days now, some endless thing they won’t tell me about, so they’re not going to notice I’m gone. Still, they always check in on me at the weirdest times, which is exactly why I need Tiffany to work her magic.

I told Emris not to park at the main gate, Too many eyes, too many security cameras, too many people who would love to report back that the Alpha of the Black Covenant Pack was sitting outside our pack house like he’s picking up his prom date. This whole little arrangement would be over before it started.

I walk

past the gardens, past the side entrance, past the staff quarters until I reach the vine-covered gate at the edge of the property. And there it is. His sports car, Lemonade yellow, loud and obnoxious and exactly the kind of car that gets the

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stole a car.

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He pulls up to a boutique and a valet rushes to the door. I look up at the sign and my eyebrows lift. This place is exclusive. The kind of exclusive where you need an invitation just to walk rough the doors but I also have money now being Alpha Ronin’s daughter and the world-wide reknown artist. I could buy anything I want.

What could he possibly show me here that I can’t get on my own

Then we step inside.,

The boutique is empty. It’s grand floors stretch out like a gallery with racks of clothes been pulled out like someone prepared for a private showing… dresses arranged by color, shoes lined up like art and accessories under soft lighting. There are maybe three assistants in the whole space, standing quietly.

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