CHAPTER 23

JULIAN POV. All through the night, I couldn't sleep because I was lost in thought over my mate. Her quick reaction to accept me baffled me the most. True, we were mates but given the circumstances of how she came to be in my care, I felt like she should have protested about the unfair way I had gotten her to my home. The fact that she was with a man before I asked my men to get her should have also made her angry. I had thought that she would be so angry with me that she would eat me raw which was the reason why I had arrived later in the night than earlier. But she hadn't said anything about how uncomfortable it was for her. She had hugged me instead and had even settled down with me when I asked that we should eat. When I remembered how jovial and lively she had been with me, it gave me the insight that she didn't mind me abducting her from my brother. When my omega, Niamh, had even told me that my mate had first disturbed them out of fright, I had been worried. But when Niamh to