Garcia' POV
I find myself lost in thought, trying to decode why their Mother would single out only one of her sons to find a Mate. Nancy keeps circling back to the age difference between us.
Sure, there's a significant gap between our ages. They're mature adults while I'm still quite young, but that doesn't bother me in the slightest. I seriously doubt it concerns them either.
Our aging process moves much slower than humans ever experienced, and our lifespans stretch far beyond what theirs did. Age differences between Mates are completely normal in Shifter society.
The way we discover true Mate-bonds nowadays makes finding that special connection increasingly challenging.
Sometimes it takes a while for an initial connection to develop into a proper Mate-bond. When a bond emerges from a genuine connection, we classify it as a true Mate-bond. Without that connection, it's simply called a Mate-bond.
