After Harry’s unsuccessful spar with Ace and Blake’s and Maria’s reconciliation, they decided to dine like a family ought to.
Maria, who had been giving her mate the cold shoulder for a whole month, looked like she couldn’t keep herself from touching her mate in some way. After a while, he simply chuckled at her, moved his chair back and told her, “Just sit on my lap already, cara.”
She grinned from ear to ear and hurried to oblige his softly spoken command.
Anastasia looked at Ace with a pout and he did the same, and asked her to sit on his lap. The vampire princess did so with a contented jump, and everybody laughed at her antics.
“You did rather well against Ace,” Blake began once they were eating desert.
“Yeah, right,” Harry scoffed, rolling his eyes. “I couldn’t even land on
