Mint to Be

Chapter Twenty Six: My Lord

My jaw dropped, "Wow. I didn't know that."

Well, I was kinda disappointed.

I mean, Miles was nice and all... well, he was really just nice. That's all.

Suddenly, he burst out laughing. "Just kidding."

My eyes widened even more. "Wait- you have a sense of humor?" I asked incredulously.

His laughter stopped, and he glared at me.

"SO who is it?!" I demanded, loosing patience.

"Me," Aiden finally said. "I realized it when I was walking home from visiting my friend at night. You were walking from school."

I gasped. "I knew that wind voice was you!"

He smiled. "I also gave you the cat."

Now THAT surprised me.

"You... what?" I asked. "But you're afraid?"

Aiden shrugged. "I thought you could use a companion. And I knew I'd get over it. So I tracked down that cat and made Garret kidnap it. Or catnap. I really committed two crimes that day."

"Thanks," I smiled. Wow. That was almost... decent of him.

"Uh, no problem?" He asked, caught off guard by my thanks.

Man. I was starting to like it here. So now I really had to leave.

"You're... strangely calm about this all," Cole pointed out.

I managed a smile, "After the whole werewolf bomb, anything else that comes along will seem normal."

Garret smiled, "Good point."

I went over and sat down on the comfy couch, next to Garret.

Surprisingly, I didn't mind that much that Aiden was my mate. But it didn't change anything about my escape plan. I'm sure he would get over me. Or we could just date after I was home like a normal person.

"So now what?" I asked. "Anything else I should know?"

"Your cat is actually a girl," Aiden offered.

My jaw dropped.

WHAT?

"WHAT?" I exclaimed. Inky padded into the kitchen just then, and I shot him, or her, a glare.

"Yep," Cole smiled.

"Why didn't you ever tell me?" I scowled at my lady cat.

"Meow," She said, licking a paw.

"Yeah, well we aren't finished here. We are gonna have a serious talk later," I told her in a hard voice.

The sense of betrayal I felt at the moment was astounding.

"So... now that that's all out of the way..." Cole began, a grin lighting up his face. "How about we play a game?"

We all groaned simultaneously, including me this time.

"What now?" Garret complained.

"I like games!" Adeline beamed. They were too perfect for each other.

"Hmmm... that's a good question," Cole thought. "Any ideas?"

"Checkers!" Suggested Garret.

"Cards against Humanity!" Suggested Aiden.

"Monopoly!" Suggested Miles.

"Candy Land!" Suggested Adeline.

"Poker!" Suggested Cate.