“I know!” I agreed, gesturing with my spoon. “That’s because...” I bit my lip, hesitating for a second too long. “He’s my fated mate, Finn.” “The father of your ex-fiancé is your fated mate?!” he shrieked in a whisper, his eyes almost bulging out of his face as I frantically shushed him. “Shhh!” I looked at the doors again, sure I’d seen movement through the tiny glass window, but there was nothing there. Must have been a trick of the light. “It sounds insane but yes. That’s not all, though. Everything was going fine, we were getting close to the mountain, when Kellan’s enforcers found us again.” I paused, the memory still painful even after all this time. “I overheard Kane talking to one of them, telling the guy he’d surrender me to them. So I confronted him and we fought... I ended up

