My Secret, My Bully, My Mates. novel Chapter 343

Wednesday I woke up to a text from Tyler.

Tyler Hot Ecology Guy: Good Morning Beautiful

Tyler Hot Ecology Guy: Can I still work out with you?

Me: No normal person is up at this time.

Tyler Hot Ecology Guy: You’re up…

Me: Like I said no normal person is up at this time

Me: People usually yell at me for getting up this early

Tyler Hot Ecology Guy: I couldn’t sleep

Me: Why?

Tyler Hot Ecology Guy: I thought you talking to me might have been a dream

Tyler Hot Ecology Guy: I needed to check, and you never answered the question

Me: Sure, I’ll be there in about 10 min

Tyler Hot Ecology Guy: Can I pick you up?

Me: I usually run, I like getting my warm-up in before I get there

Tyler Hot Ecology Guy: Can I run with you?

Me: Sure, how long will it take you to get here?

His head shoots up at me and I raise both of my eyebrows at him, daring him to lie to me. He opens his mouth. Closes it. Opens it again and then looks at the sky blowing out a huge breath.

“Seriously, you are too perfect and observant for your own good. This was not supposed to be this hard.”

“That is going to require another explanation, but I will let you get your thoughts in order.” I swing my small one shoulder backpack over my head and signal for him to follow me.

We don’t talk at all and are in no hurry to get to the gym. It takes about fifteen minutes and neither of us have broken a sweat, but move right into training, both avoiding topics we don’t want to or can’t discuss, but I’m pretty sure he implied that he wasn’t supposed to get involved with me which can mean so many things.

When we are done, we both head to the locker rooms to shower and change. I still have classes this morning, so I don’t have a ton of time.

We head to the diner and grab what has become our usual booth in the back corner.

“Alright, why don’t you start with the easiest topic. What is this about you already meeting your mate?” I don’t even hesitate to ask right after we place our order. “And just to clarify, I’m not mad or jealous.” I gave him a look. “I am genuinely curious because you and Mike and mostly Robbie seem to have this big issue with mates being a stupid or ridiculous concept, yet you know who yours is, or I guess maybe ‘was’ is a possibility.”