Chapter 52. She Is My Mate

Madeline’s POV

This wasn’t going to go well.

I could already picture Janet’s face when we told them. I could already feel the hate radiating off her. She would freak out and I didn’t want to tell her.

But I couldn’t stop Alpha Dimitri from telling her. I would have to tell him why, and I wasn’t going to do that. How could I tell him that his mother was making me feel like trash for the last nine months? I couldn’t do that. I couldn’t hurt him like that.

I would just have to take everything she would say or do to me. I could handle it. I could handle it for him.

I glanced up at him and my heart skipped a beat.

I could handle anything for him.

Alpha Dimitri looked down at me and smiled. He tightened his hold on my hand, lifted it, and placed a soft kiss on my palm. My knees buckled and I almost fell.

“Don’t look at me like that, princess,” he said quietly. “Save that look for later when we are alone.”

My eyes widened and I l