“But you’re his mate”. I frowned.

“I am”. She smiled her hand reaching for his. “But things were very different back then and we simply couldn’t be together because there were rules”.

“But you had mom”. I spoke.

“We met in secret”. She grinned as if remembering the time, they spent together. “It was very difficult for us to stay apart so we had secret meetings, secret hideouts. We made it work for a period of time”.

I swallowed the lump that appeared in the back ...