Chapter 50

Cole exhaled; leaned back; all composed again. “Well, since you brought it up,” he said evenly, “we need to fix a date.”

Her stomach dropped.

“We need to fix a date for our acceptance ceremony.” She heard him continue and gulped nervously.

Silence swallowed the table. Aren stiffened while Selena’s eyes widened at the change in tension between the two.

Aria stared at him. “You can’t just decide that.”

He rose from his seat, not saying another word to her but she continued.

“It’s called an acceptance ceremony for a reason. It doesn’t work if I don’t accept. I have to accept you, asshole!”

He had already turned to leave, so he just stopped halfway, glancing back over his shoulder.

“Oh; but you have accepted me. We consummated this union already, didn’t we? And you enjoyed every moment of it; I remember.”

Her face burned but she said nothing. She couldn’t think of anything else to say at the moment as she still couldn’t believe he ju