My mate, My exception novel Chapter 53

We spend the rest of the morning and a good part of the afternoon exploring, until Jake decides we need to make our way back.

Thinking about my failed attempt at mind linking earlier, I remembered I never was able to ask the question I wished.

"Why were you in Tyler's office today working?"

He hesitates to respond and I bump my shoulder against his to demand him to cough it up.

"As soon as Tyler got news you were coming out of heat, he marked Anna. He needed to make sure one of us was available for pack duties, and knowing we'd be okay, he marked her last night."

I slowed down quite a bit shocked. Anna must have gotten really cozy with Tyler to have let him mark her. Either that or-

"How'd Anna been?" I blurt out, a little too obnoxiously, as Jake looks at me questionably.

"She's been okay. I heard she settled well this past week." I let out a sigh of relief hearing this. As long as she was okay then I was happy.

Jake was boasting about how he was going to make me a romantic dinner tonight, since it was our first night after our mating, but as soon as the house came in view, we were greeted by a group of serious looking men.

"Jake! Come quick! Your mother just received a letter from a vamp."

Jake grabbed my wrist and we hurried inside.

We were ushered down the hallway of Tyler's office, but instead of entering we walked into a room across the hall. It resembled a conference room so its location actually made much sense.

There were many people in the room, although Melissa and I were the only woman. David was there, extremely tense, along with many face I already recognized from the pack.

"What happened?" Jake questions clearly. They all seemed intent on listening, and I feel proud of his importance and what respect he gets.

"This letter was dropped on the doorstep. It smells like them," David growls, sliding it across the table to him. "they must have been on the territory. It's addressed to Mrs. Anderson."

I realized that Anderson must be Jake's last name, and was astounded to realized I'd never asked him that before.

Jake had become unbearably protective. I spent most of the days after the pack found out who the other "Mrs. Anderson" was locked in our bedroom. Jake growled at anyone who approached the room and met people outside to get our food at meal times.

He was furious that the vampires had gotten close enough to drop off that letter, and even more furious they misinterpreted the receiver. I wasn't upset over that part though, considering we never announced that we got "married".

Jake and I also hadn't done it again since when we mated. It's like I was diagnosed with a terminal disease, not lightly threatened with a letter.

The fews times I was able to leave the room, he didn't leave my side. I went to tv room to pick a movie, he escorted me. It was a casual gesture to him but a prison statement to me.

It got a little better when Anna finally got out of her heat. I was watching yet another movie, this one on Netflix, when she burst in the room. She seemed happier than she'd been since she'd been here. She squealed at me quietly and threw her arms around me. She was literally bouncing up and down with excitement. I took it that she hadn't been informed yet.

It was good to catch up with her, considering it had been like two weeks. I couldn't help but notice the bite mark on her neck, much similar to mine. We giggled with each other over the tacky movie playing in the background.

I almost let the letter threat slip but I caught myself before I did. Realizing the absence of Jake and Tyler, I figured she'd be filled in soon enough.

"Was it good? When you guy's mated?" Anna asked me, wiggling he eyebrows. I nodded my head frantically and blushed. I was glad I had Anna to talk to, but didn't feel comfortable going into the details.