She chuckled. “Absolutely not.”
I took in a breath and blew it out before and started to pick at the side of my nails. “It’s Rowan.”
Toya tilted her head. “What do you mean?”
I focused on my fingers as I blurted everything out. “I can’t wait until the mating ceremony because I am coming into a heat. Erubus has been visiting Nix and Megan and they have both fallen for him, which is what is causing the heat. I was pissed because I like Thoth, maybe love him, but then daddy spilled the beans that he magicked the guards at the building to keep Rowan’s letters from me. I went and got them this morning and read one. And he said he loved me.”
Both my mom and Toya were silent for far too long before I looked up and both were looking at me with their mouths dropped open. “Say something.” I nudg
