A Mate for York(58)

York took a deep breath. “Good. We’re on the same page then because I want out.”

Brant snarled, hitting both his hands on the desk which splintered. The entire structure collapsed in a flurry of papers and files. Brant’s computer crashed just to the right of York’s foot.

The door opened and Allison put her head around the jamb. She rolled her eyes and sighed dramatically before closing the door.

“Why? You can’t have her anyway!” Brant yelled.

“Ross got to have his mate. I want mine. Cassidy is my mate, Brant. I don’t care if I have to live in Sweetwater. I don’t care if you throw me in the fucking dungeon, it won’t change the way I feel about her.”

The sound of a ringtone stopped him for a second but when Brant ignored it, York carried on talking. “I love her, Brant. I don’t want any other female.”

Allison stuck her head around the jamb. “Sorry to interrupt but there is a female at the gate claiming that York will want to see her. She has an expired entry pass. Her name is Cassidy Parker and—”

“Let her in.” York growled, feeling his heart accelerate and his breath freeze in his lungs and all at the same time. She had come…for him.

Cassidy was here.

Allison turned her gaze to Brant. After several long seconds, his king nodded. “Send her here.”

Allison nodded and closed the door.

York let out a ragged breath. “Thank you.” He locked eyes with Brant.

“This doesn’t mean I’m agreeing to anything.” He ran another hand through his hair. His jaw was clenched and his eyes were dark.

After a minute or two, he grabbed his phone and dialed. York could hear Zane answer. Brant relayed the events to the other male.

“I’m kind of busy dealing with an issue.” was his cryptic reply. “Whatever you decide is fine with me.”

“Fine.” Brant ended the call. “Your female must join the program. We need to keep this above board,” he growled. “We can’t have our males getting funny ideas. We’ve had protestors at the gate. Just as much bad fucking press as good. We know for a fact that there is a faction out to get the royal family and maybe even the elite in the program. Vigilante shit is not going to fly.” He sighed loudly. “Clearly you care too much about this female to let it go.”

“She can’t join the program.” York said, keeping his eyes on the male. “She is infertile.”

Brant’s face contorted in rage and he cursed a whole string of hard words. “I thought you were desperate to procreate.”

York shrugged. “I feel more strongly about her than about having young. I still want her. I love her. I don’t care about anything else. Procreation is no longer important to me.”

“Are you sure that you want this, because once you are out it’s over. I won’t take you back.”

“I’ve never been surer of anything.” York could feel himself grinning. He couldn’t help it. His female had come to him. It looked as if Brant was about to agree. Things couldn’t get much better.

“You can wipe that look off your face,” Brant growled. “I don’t want to agree to this. I can’t believe you males. Why can’t you just follow the damned rules?”

York shrugged, keeping his eyes locked with Brant’s. “Love doesn’t conform. It knows no boundaries or rules…it just is. I love Cassidy regardless of the shit storm it brings down on me. If taking the easy route means that I don’t have Cass in my life then I’ll gladly take the difficult path with her by my side. She is mine just as I am hers. There is no other way.”

“Oh, York.” Cassidy sobbed, drawing his attention to the door. Her eyes were wide and her bottom lip was pulled between her teeth. “Do you really mean it?”

York leapt to his feet so quickly that his chair went crashing. “I’m so glad you came.” He ate up the distance between them taking ahold of her hand.

She pulled a little face. “I had to see if you really meant it…about not caring that I can’t have kids, that is. I see that it really and truly doesn’t matter to you.”

York was grinning like the village idiot but he didn’t care. He shook his head. “You are all that matters to me, Cass. Only you.” He cupped her chin. “I fucking love you.” His voice was so deep with emotion.

Cassidy sucked in a breath, her lip quivered. “I love you too. I didn’t think it would be possible to fall in love with someone so quickly, but I was wrong.” Her eyes filled with tears and she sniffed, clearly trying not to cry. “I know you well enough to know that you are it for me too.” A single tear fell and he was just about to wipe it away and kiss the hell out of her when Brant interjected.