NATALIE

My mouth drops open, my jaw aching when I see the man — screaming trouble —sitting right over my bed.

Gasping, I step inside and close the door before anyone from my family catches a whiff of his scent or hears the spike in my heart rate.

“ What the fuck! ” I mumble under my breath.

“ We have to work on that colourful language. ” He hums in a deep voice.

Putting his hands on both sides of his frame, he stretches his muscles and leans back.

I draw a deep, shaky breath. Disbelief makes me freeze on my very spot.

“ Y…Y…You. What? I mean…h…h…how? ” I am at a loss of words.

“ How am I here? ” His left eyebrow shoots up.

His gruff voice does weird things to me. Heat tackles my body.

When you are close to your mate, you get affected by heat season. Giana said this to me and I think…she was not wrong.

“ Something bothering you? ” A fine smirk touches his lips.

“ You! You stay there! ” I narrow my eyes, taking support of the wall behind me.

This is a shitty time for this h