Third Person’s POV:
“Are you dating someone?” Giselle enquired while looking at her suspiciously.
“How do you know?” Nate asked in shock.
The color vanished from Natalie’s face when her best friend understood what was in her heart without speaking about it.
“I knew it! The way you were talking about emotions, love, relationships, and understanding people rather than talking about boiling or frying them alive, I knew something was terribly wrong. And you hid it from me!!!” Giselle looked at her like a lover who has been cheated.
“Giselle… listen…” Natalie tried to speak but Giselle was not in the mood to listen.
“Tell me who he is? Where does he live? Is he a witch.. no.. I mean a wizard? Warlock maybe? Tell me everything about him! Who is the kind of guy who made you understand ’emotions’???” Giselle asked hurriedly, everything in one sentence.
“Giselle, I will explain everything to you tomorrow. Right now, your mate needs you” Natalie said genuinely.
“Yeah, you are right but you will give me each and every detail about him tomorrow morning”, Giselle said in a sharp voice.
“I promise” Natalie nodded.
“You will come here with your boyfriend or I will reach Arizona!” Giselle said in a demanding tone.
“Um yeah, I will, but he is not my boyfriend. He is my mate”. Natalie cursed herself under her breath for speaking about it.
“Mate? But such terminologies are not used in witches! Don’t you have partners?” Giselle asked in a confused tone.
Nate knew that if she didn’t reply honestly, Giselle wouldn’t let her go home and her mate would reach her,
“Yeah, the fact is, I am his mate!”
“Wait a damn minute! Are you dating a werewolf?” Giselle asked in a flabbergasted tone.
“We will talk about this later. Or he will come here now!” Nate said in a frightened tone.
“So fast? Is he a vampire?” Giselle asked in a muddled tone.
They were so busy gossiping about Natalie’s mate that they didn’t realize that they were almost at the main gate of the pack house.
“Riven! Now!” Nate pointed towards the main door of the pack house.
“OKAY!” Giselle shouted and went towards the main door.
With a white smoke, Natalie teleported herself back to Arizona.
“Gosh! How she handles it all the time!” Shaking her head, Giselle went inside the pack house and moved directly towards Riven’s room.
She knocked on the door twice but Riven didn’t reply.
She knocked a third time and was about to leave when Riven opened the door.
Giselle’s eyes immediately went towards his seductive body. He was only wrapping a towel against his waist.
She checked him out entirely from his strong face, to his chiseled chest and washboard abs… and other parts of his body.
“Giselle, are you okay, sweetheart?” Riven asked worriedly.
“Huh? Oh, yes! Yes! Yes. I am fine”. Giselle replied. She took a while to come back to her senses.
Her cheeks were burning and they turned red due to embarrassment.
‘Why was he taking a shower in the middle of the night?’ Giselle thought confusedly.
“Did you take a warm shower just now?” Giselle asked in a curious voice, as she needed to confirm something.
“Cold one”, an honest reply escaped Riven’s mouth before he could stop himself.
He cursed himself under his breath and looked away.
‘Cold shower? At this time of the night? That means? Is he horny?’ Giselle thought, she did her best not to smile on his face.
“Oh, I see. Can I come in?” She asked in an innocent tone.
“Sure, sweetheart. Please come in”. Riven moved inside and opened the door wide for her.
After entering his room, she got on his bed and he sat next to her.
‘Let’s see if he is speaking the truth about meeting Erica!’ Giselle thought and planned to do a lie detector test.
“Um, well, Riven. After visiting Stefan, I came to check on you before but you were not here”, Giselle replied with a small smile, not letting him know that she had become an FBI agent and was following him around in the dark forest.
“Yeah, I went out” Riven spoke honestly.
“Can I ask you where?”