Chapter 81

HARLENE.

I only have one task tonight: keep my best friend Marcia safe from her heat, which means making sure no unmated males are near her and attending to her once it comes.

But what do you do when your best friend cries in front of you and confesses all the emotions she bottled inside her about her fated mate? The one she didn’t want to be mated with, but the one her wolf was pining for? What do you do when she makes one request to see him so she can ask for a rejection?

I said no a thousand times, but she kept asking. She told me she was still not in heat, and she thought her heat would come way past midnight as her mom’s heat always comes around that time.

I had no idea about heat since I had never met my mate yet, and my mom never had one, as she and Dad were not fated mates.

But let me tell you, despite not being fated, I wanted the love between them. My mom was accustomed to receiving lavish attention. She grew up spoiled, and although her brother, Uncle Paul, was strict, he m