Chapter 0876

Maryam scowls and clenches her jaw, leaning back against the cushions of the couch and glaring down at her knees. Rafe raises his eyebrows, surprised. Because of all things, he didn’t think it would be the accusation of a poorly made argument that stopped Maryam in her tracks.

God, but Hank’s intellectual family is…very different than his own.

But Maryam…she’s his family now, right?

…Right?

Rafe takes a moment, while Maryam is distracted in her anger, to study this girl – his mate. His mate. God, how had he never known it before?

Because it’s not the first time they’ve met – no, Maryam and her little sister were fairly frequent visitors to the palace when they were children, always accompanying their parents when Hank and Sarah came down to the city. Rafe and the other Sinclair children had always played with them, but…well. They really always had seemed so incredibly delicate –