Sometime earlier
Grace’s POV
“Ned wants to speak to you,” Loy, a male Fae informed me, the second I stepped out of the car. “An Alpha’s work is never done” had Jack’s eyes said before he leaned over and asked if I wanted him to come along. The selfish part of me wanted me to say yes. But I knew that he was itching to see his son and I didn’t have the heart to deny him that. And so, I watched as Jack walk away, On his way to see his ex-mate.
I wasn’t nervous…
I wasn’t!
Ok, perhaps I was a little bit anxious, but could you blame a girl? I’d had a mate before, and he’d rejected me and tossed me aside like I was yesterday’s trash. And while I knew that Jack wasn’t like that and I trusted him completely, there kept being an annoying, incessant, DAMNED voice at the back of my head whispering:
“But what if…”