“You know nothing about us.”

I took offense to those words but didn’t show it. “I’ve been learning about it.”

“A mate is for life,” he said. “We’ve lived for hundreds of years and some of us still don’t find our true mates. Our mating was arranged just like Lucas’s marriage to Arabella.”

Those words shocked me. I just assumed that everyone found their true mate and bonded the way I had with my mates. I also believed that they couldn’t bond if ...