Chapter Seventy-Three
Mine
Oh you're in my veins
And I cannot get you out
Oh you're all I taste
At night inside of my mouth
(In My Veins - Andrew Belle)November 5th, 1977Remus was the first to rise from his chair, suddenly pale and looking unbelievably
guilty. His green gaze seemed to track Mia, but anytime they made eye contact, he would
look away as though he had done something horribly, horribly wrong.
"Sirius!" Mia hissed.
"I don't understand; what's happened?" Lily asked.
"How do you know?" James finally brought himself out of his stupor to ask.
"Mum.. ." Sirius replied, looking properly reprimanded for blurting out the secret.
He refused to make eye contact with Mia. "Mum told me last summer." He turned and
briefly looked at Remus, frowning. "It wasn't just your future mate I was worried about."
"Tilly can see the Soul Bond," Mia explained to her brother, who nodded before
removing his glasses and rubbing the palms of his hands into his eyes, groaning.
"It doesn't make sense, though," Remus said, still refusing to look at Mia, and only
speaking directly to Sirius. "If the two of you are bonded, then Mia shouldn't have been
able to... to have been with me." He turned back to look at James and Lily. "Sirius would
have never allowed it."
"The bond isn't sealed," Mia replied.
"Wait." James looked up. "I thought bonds are sealed by having sex."
Mia shook her head. "Those are just werewolf bonds."
"Are you bonded to Remus, then?"
Remus paled and went wide-eyed. "No!"
"No," Mia answered much more calmly. "I'm not his mate."