Chapter 27. Possession

BELLE

I stared at her. I couldn’t believe what she was telling me.

“Is that why you didn’t come here once you got to Paris?” my mother asked. “Because you met your mate?”

I nodded my head slowly, still shocked that we were even having this conversation.

She looked away from me with a pained expression on her face.

“Mom?” I asked. “Are you a werewolf?”

She turned back to me and shook her head. “No, no, of course not. I’m human just like you.”

“But you have a mate?” I asked.

She nodded. “Yes.”

I swallowed. How common was it for humans to have mates? And how did I not know that my mother had one? How did I not know that she was part of the werewolf world? Had my mother really not wanted me in her life that much? To not tell me about one of the biggest parts of it?

“What is his name?” she asked. I assumed that she was asking about Grayson.

“It doesn’t matter,” I said. “I’m going home tomorrow.”

“You’re not staying