He reached across the table, his warm hand covering hers. “Me too.”
Sigh had never sat down in the main room with a patron.
Never.
But here was his truemate, so he was fucking sitting with her.
His wolf had snapped to attention and practically forced him to walk out into the main room, and he’d followed his instincts and saw her.
Beautiful angel who smelled like his best dream come to life.
His wolf howled in his head as he watched her eat the burger he’d made just for her, and it was possibly the most erotic thing he’d ever seen.
Those little happy noises? Like catnip to his wolf, or whatever the wolf equivalent of catnip was.
He heard a low growl from the bar and spared a glance at his brother. Dare tilted his head toward the kitchen, and Sigh stifled a sigh.
“I’ve gotta get back in the kitchen before my brother tries to toss me back there.” He pushed back in the chair and rose slowly.
Her gaze traveled up his body, and he loved the way her blue eyes turned deep, ocean blue as the sweet scent of her arousal reached him.
Okay. His beauty was turned on.
Byhim.
And that was heady fucking knowledge, because he could pound concrete with his dick right now. He’d never reacted to a female like this before, and that’s how he knew he was in the presence of his mate.
As disappointment flickered across her face, he let out a growl of his own. “Would you like to come back into the kitchen and hang out while you eat?”
“I can be back there?”
“It’s my kitchen.”
She paused and then smiled. “Okay.”
He lifted her plate and she grabbed her drink, and he led her back into the kitchen. Pulling a stool near the grill, he set her plate on a counter by the grill and looked at Marco. “This is Juliette. Juliette this is Marco.”
“Hi,” she said, settling on the stool.
“Welcome. If you don’t like those fries, just know that I didn’t make them.”
Sigh narrowed his gaze at Marco who grinned and turned his attention back to the fryer. He picked up a spatula and looked at the tickets.
“Tara said you came here for the Blue Monster,” he said.
She brightened. “I saw it on social media. It’s weird because I’ve never seen this place’s posts before, but it was the first thing I saw yesterday after work.”
Not weird, fate.
But humans sometimes didn’t understand the pull of truemates or how fate worked. All he knew was that his mate had seen his burger post and shown up the next day, and holy hell was he one happy wolf.
“Where’s work?” he asked.
“It’s a bookstore called Willow & 2ndBooks in Mill Creek,” she said. She took a few bites, her gaze on his hands as he worked, flipping burgers, adding toppings, and plating them.
“Ah, a book girlie,” he said.
She let out a cute laugh. “You must be on social media a lot if you know that term.”
