Jake decides the one person he'll tell is his father, because he wants someone to look after his mate while he's away. They exchange numbers and Jake heads home. Patrick also agrees to keep their mate bond a secret from his family, especially his brother Alex, so they don't get any friction from that quarter. The two agree to hold off on consummating their mate bond until Jake returns from university, which will also allow Patrick to get a bit older and experience a bit more of life. Second, Patrick is sixteen, which causes a whole slew of headaches as the kid is in school and cannot even drive yet. First, he still has eighteen months of university courses left. Jake immediately senses Patrick is his mate. When he gets there Alex isn't home, but his sixteen year old brother, Patrick, is. He gets into town kind of late and decides to first drop by his best friend Alex's house. Jake is a 22 year old wolf shifter on semester break from university in Melbourne who's come back home for the holiday. So why did I hate it so much? Let me tell you. And like the saying goes, I totally made an ass out of myself with that thinking. I just assumed this story would be much of the same. A very much rinse, lather, repeat, kind of fine that lulled me into a sense of complacency. You see, it's my fault because this series has been almost frighteningly the same.

I'm stupid for just jumping ahead blindly with a series. I read this without even reading the blurb or the reviews, just jumping straight in after reading Protective Mate.

I continued to read in rage and in hate.Īnd you know what? That's on me. Long after I should have DNFed this piece of garbage, I didn't. Oh, but you read it, Belen.I can hear you whisper. If I could get back the hours of my life that I wasted on this story, I would. If I could find every copy and burn or erase them all, I would.

If I could give this negative stars, I would.

Forbidden Mate by Toni Griffin