Stained Fate: New Adult Paranormal Shifter Romance (Stained Series Book 2) by Jorjor Battle

Author:Jorjor Battle [Battle, Jorjor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

16

WILLOW

“Did you put on the kettle?” Eddie asks as he comes back in, deliciously shirtless, and sets my mail on the table as he goes over to check what’s in the fridge.

The light blue envelope instantly catches my eye. My constantly sweaty hands damage the paper as I pick up the envelope in my hands. I already know what’s inside. My mother gave me a heads-up that it was coming.

I rip open the envelope to my sister’s mating ceremony invitation. I pull out a photo of my sister and her soon-to-be mate smiling back at me with the date, time, and RSVP number. I’m going, of course. I’ve spoken to my sister and mother about attending; they brought it up on my visit when my father was sick, but I honestly thought my sister wouldn’t invite me. Maybe she’d forget to send the invitation, or maybe it’d get lost in the mail. Not receiving the invitation was going to be my escape from going. I love my sister, and I wish I could support her and be happy for her as a normal sister would, but we weren’t normal. Not when she was just as cold and callous over my reaction to Milo’s death as everyone else was.

“What’s that?” Eddie asks as he plops down in the kitchen chair next to me. He nods his head towards the white cardstock bending at the mercy of my fingertips.

“An invitation to my sister’s mating ceremony.” I watch as he sets a cut up apple and a tub of peanut butter in front of me. He has one, too, but doesn’t start to eat. I don’t either. Turning to face him, I force out a strangled breath. Am I actually going to ask him to come to my sister’s wedding? I want to. I know in my gut that we aren’t cool or good, or I don’t know. I had the urge to mate him, and we haven’t gone over it since it happened over an hour ago, and I’m terrified to bring it up.

And that’s not the only problem in asking him to go with me. Would he care that everyone will know he’s not my mate? I don’t... wanna go without him. The pounding in my ears gets louder as each second ticks on. Word vomit builds in my chest and rushes up to my lips. “Want to be my plus one?”

Can he hear my heart beating violently, or is it only me?

“I get to meet the family?” He smiles, and this smile is much more what I’m used to than the smile he tried to give me earlier. This is the Eddie I’m used to.

“I mean, if you don’t want to—” I try to give him a way out, maybe he’s actually mad but hiding it from me. Why would he want to go on a date with such a hot mess? I’m so broken and selfish, I can’t even understand why I even asked him to go with me.

“Of course I want to go.

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