Clementine:
As we kept looking into each other’s eyes, I shook my head and broke the stare. He looked more shocked than upset.
"How is that possible?" I stuttered, pulling my arms free from his hands and putting as much distance between us as I could while walking backward.
Yorick scratched the back of his neck.
"Yorick, you didn’t hear it, right?" I tried to convince him it might have been a mistake on my part. Maybe I was the only one who heard it, but his expression told me otherwise.
"I heard it," he said calmly. "I don’t know how it’s possible." He shrugged, a smile forming on his lips.
He looked happy, but I wasn’t. How is it possible? I’d heard of alphas having many mates, but a she-wolf? That couldn’t happen.
"Yorick, you don’t understand. It’s not possible. Only men can have different mates. Alphas, betas, gammas, omegas— all men — and they have five or six mates. I’m just a she-wolf. I’m not supposed to have more than one mate," I almost yelled, then covered my mouth so the fleshmingo wouldn’t hear us.
"Why do you look so sad?" Yorick asked, suddenly upset that my reaction was so different from his.
"Because it’s not possible, don’t you see? This has to be some mistake." I was shaking as I spoke.
I didn’t want one mate, let alone two. And why would I have two? I wasn’t special. What was happening? I felt like I was losing my mind, but he looked so at ease.
"Do you want me to confirm if we felt it right?" he asked. I nodded quickly, stepping toward him with my hands clasped in front of my chest like I was pleading.
"Well, then we’ll have to kiss to see if we did feel it," he said. I frowned, stepping back and letting my hands fall.
"You think this is a joke?" I asked.
He stretched his neck and grunted. "No, I’m just not as unhappy as you. My reaction is different. If you want to be stressed and upset, fine, but you can’t ruin my happiness."
He pointed at me as he hissed the words, clearly offended by my reaction.
"It’s not just you. I reacted the same with Haiden." I realized my reaction hadn’t been kind. I didn’t have to be kind, but it was still a mate bond, something very sacred.
"It’s okay, you don’t have to explain. I guess you already ruined the moment. You know what, Clementine? Finding a mate is special, and thank you for ruining it, for showing me my mate is disgusted by the idea of a bond with me." He began to complain instantly.
I was calming down, but the shock wasn’t gone. I was still confused, with too many questions in my head. And instead of finding out why, he seemed focused on looking happy, which confused me more.
First, he confessed he was genuinely in love with me, which didn’t change much. When we were dating, I didn’t know about the bet thing, so I thought he truly liked me. The bet thing I only found out recently.

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