Page 9 of My Perfect One
“Again, I have to apologize for my son. In fact, I have to do that often for all my sons.” Baba sighs.
“Whoa, I’m innocent,” I say as I pull out my second pita pocket.
“Where the fuck did that come from?” Ares arches his eyebrow at me.
“My pocket. You want some?”
“Fuck no. Look at it, it’s all squished and oozing.”
“And yet so delicious,” I say as I take a bite.
“Are you sure you want to be with him?” Ares looks at Seraphina.
She giggles. “Yes.”
“You should know that we don’t accept returns once you claim him,” Adonis says.
Seraphina looks up at me.
“I think I’ll keep him. Pocket sandwiches and all.”
“Good luck.”
I flip my brothers off and then smile at my girl. I still can’t believe I found my mate. Shifters believe that a fated mate is the mate the gods chose for you. But because it’s not an easy thing to find them, a lot of us end up choosing our mates. My twin, Artemis, found her fated mate, Kostas Nikolaidis. Ares and Sakura are chosen mates. We all hope for our fated mates. But Ares and Sakura showed me that choosing your mate is no less than finding your fated one.
“Astéri mou,” I whisper to her.
“What does that mean?”
“‘My star.’ You’re my home. And we’re going to help you get revenge on everyone that took your family from you.”
Seraphina hugs me.
“There’s one good thing that’s come from this. You. And I know my parents would’ve loved you.”
I hug her tightly as I kiss her head. I hear my brothers laughing, I look over at them and squint.
“What the fuck is so funny?” I growl at them.
“Holy shit. I just realized something. I thought Sakura’s bearcat was small compared to Ares. But this is going to be awesome. Your mate is a snake.” Eros laughs.
Seraphina and her brothers give us a puzzled look.
“What is your animal?” she asks me.
“I’m a polar bear.”
Seraphina
Now Oliver and Archer are laughing too. Assholes.
“We need to shift now, I’m not missing your animals meeting each other,” Archer says as he’s laughing.
We follow the others to a cabin on the campgrounds. It’s a pretty big cabin with barn doors, I follow everyone inside. There’s a huge room with no furniture, and a few bedrooms. I wonder what the other cabins look like.
“This cabin was built for us. The barn doors were put in because in our animal forms, we can open and close them,” Apollo explains to us. “You can take one of the bedrooms if you want. We’re all used to shifting together, so we just shift in the living room.”
“I haven’t met a shifter that was shy about getting naked in front of other shifters.” Oliver laughs.
