Beau.
"What happens if you have sex with your mate before the mating ritual?" I ask Rex out of the blue. He is lying on his side with a book pressed to his nose on the floor of my room, this is how we usually spend our evenings. He looks up from the book with raised brows.
He doesn't express shock at my question. Rex is not nosy; he doesn't ask too many questions. "You can't," he says matter-of-fact.
I frown "What do you mean? It's just sex."
He nods "But the mating ritual joins you and your mate. Having sex before will sever the ties that bound you together. You have to wait,'' at this point he is warning me. He already knows that we are talking about me.
"That can't be right," I don't want to believe that I almost ruined my chance with him. He sits up on the bed "I studied the mating ritual. I even have a book written by our forefathers. I could go get it for you," he suggests, standing up from the floor.
"Wait," I stop him. I don't want to read this off a book.
