#Chapter 271: Mates Merged

Hannah I stared at the document in my hands, the Alpha Council’s approval stamp glaring back at me. “You… When did you do this?” Noah shrugged as he slipped his robe on. “Since the moment I asked you to be my girlfriend.” My mind whirled as I thought back to that day six months ago—how Noah had said that he had to run back into the Council chambers for something before we left. He said he would meet me at my house, join my family for dinner. “You talked to the Alpha Council that day,” I said quietly. He nodded. “That was the first day I told them of my intent. They weren’t keen on it, of course. But I wore them down over the past six months.” I swallowed hard as the implications hit me. All of the secrecy, all of the sly smiles and promises that everything would be just fine… The nights spent holding me, telling me not to worry about our future because it would work itself out. It wasn’t working itself out. He was working it out. “Y