Brad POV
The look on her face told him Piper had not been expecting him to state my Mate and Luna. But she did bare his Mark and protocol did actually dictate that he was to say those words. He would have told her, had she not cut him off.
She likely thought it would be just like when she was 17, and just had to pledge loyalty to him. But now that she was his Mate, it was different. Brad even knew why she hesitated to finish her pledge. She was not yet ready to state those two words.
His whole unit was there in the room to witness it, and when she made that slight adjustment to his wording, it didn’t really bother him. Luna, future Luna, it meant the same thing really. It just meant he still had to wait. No real surprise there, she’d only been here a few days.
Brandon accepting him rig
