These Old Bones

The alpha seemed to find it easy to settle beside her, and Novel smiled sweetly as he got comfortable in the shade beside her. He repeated her name and officially gave her his own, Frostbite. She looked him over quickly and couldn’t argue the name certainly fit him. He mentioned Ara then, and she felt her eyes grow a bit distant. Labels matter little in her world now, and everything was so complicated. She hoped Ara wouldn’t be upset with what she did eventually decide to tell him. ”My mate.” She decided on. ”We raised two boys together, and were separated for a long time.” She continued, realizing he might wonder why she hadn’t been there when Ara had officially joined. ”How long have you and their mother been together?” She wasn’t sure if she had spied the woman who birthed them at the meeting.