Eventually Killian picks me up and takes me to the couch where he sits us back down with me still in his lap.
"Now that we know we are mates do you want to invite your brothers over today for your birthday?" Killian asks.
I wish more than anything that we could but I know it's not safe yet. "We can't yet. Until we've completed the mating ceremony my parents can't know where I am." I respond sadly.
"Cyrus knows we are mates, there's nothing your parents can do now," he responds. It takes me a minutes to figure out he is talking about the king, I've never heard someone talk about him so informally.
I sit up on his lap to look at him and ask, "Wait! How does he know, I only found out today?"
Killian rubs his hand up and down my back to calm me and it works, "I told him right after I met
