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Raiden's pov

" And where have you been?" Mom raises a brow as I step into the kitchen to grab myself some juice. Dammit, there's no orange juice.

" Stayed at Lester's last night," I lied and I hated lying to Mom but I didn't want her to know that I spent the night at Giovanni's house with his fake daughter and had finger fucked her until she literally fell asleep.

She doesn't quite believe me. " You smell different," she points out, leaning in closer to me and jokingly pulls in a lungful of air. " Too floral to be Lester unless....Lester has a change of perfume?"

I rolled my eyes, biting back a grin. Lying to Mom was impossible. " It's not Dayna's if that's what you are worried about,"

Mom didn't approve of Dayna and I's relationship which was many of the reasons we always broke it off. Mom and Dad believed in waiting for their one true mate...however, Dad confessed that if Mom hadn't been his mate, he would have rejected his mate for her.

Their relationship had always been more