Chapter 135

I could see that there was more, but I didn’t get involved in it; we had agreed that I would stay aside when it came to werewolves.

Sure, we had an epic fight over it, our first fight as a couple. I didn’t want there to be secrets between us, and Ivan insisted that it wasn’t about that, but about protecting me. In fact, there would be no secrets: he would tell me whatever I wanted to know, anything, but I couldn’t intervene in the decisions he had to make if they were matters of his people. It seemed fine when I calmed down enough to let him explain; Ivan kept insisting that it was better for me not to take part in any of this, so as not to give anyone cause for complaint against me. I was the odd one out; of course it would be natural that they wouldn’t trust me until I showed them that they could.

When Sasha left, I quickly got out of bed. We had to start the day, and it was a very important day. It was a Friday morning. Mirko would be turning ten on Saturday, and he w