Chapter 12

Ramon POV

I stood in the main foyer of my mansion, checking my watch for the third time in five minutes as I was getting a bit impatient.

It was nearly three in the afternoon, and I’d been waiting for almost an hour for Lake and Ollie to come downstairs so that I could see them. After my disturbing discovery at the warehouse and the conversation I’d overheard outside my bedroom suite, I’d made an important decision to postpone tonight’s bonding ceremony where I would officially claim Lake as my mate.

There were too many unknowns that I hadn’t considered properly yet, there were too many pieces of Lake’s story that didn’t fit together properly. And if my suspicions about Samuel Sanders were correct, then rushing into a mating bond would be the worst possible thing I could do right now.

Instead, I’d decided on something more normal for them but equally important—shopping. If Lake and Ollie were going to be living here permanently, they needed proper clot