Ivy: I stood in our room with the door cracked, listening to my mates argue with the archangel. I knew this was a mistake. I had found not one but three mates, and even though Uriel is a beautiful man, he does not appeal to me like my mates do. His scent was barely there. The need I felt to touch my mates did not exist between Uriel and me. So why did he feel that I was his as well? When the voices in the office next to ours rose so loudly that they woke Kali, I became enraged. Whatever this is, it will not interfere with my child and the schedule we had worked so hard to create for her. I took her in my arms, wiping her alligator tears from her flushed red cheeks that reminded me so much of myself, and I nestled her against my chest while stomping into the office to pitch my own fi