*****Jace’s POV*****
All my life I’d only known my family — my father and Erika. They were the only people I needed in my life, I was comfortable with them. Father had tried his best to give me the best life had to offer. After my mom had left, I had decided I didn't need any other person in my life. I had decided that father and Erika were enough for me, they gave me love and treated me well.
I was wary of love, after seeing what mom’s leaving had done to dad, I became wary of the opposite s*x. And it was not a problem to avoid them especially when dad had always been hard on Erika and I about the opposite s*x, he never let us go to any functions or receive random visitors and after a while, it had a become a part of me.
Even when I had realized Kat was my mate, I had been shoc
