Hold on a sec. Hold on several seconds actually. Corbin looks utterly confused for a moment. "The hell does that haveta do with anything? Does your mate have to be a guy? No wait. Hold on."

He shook his head after a second, took Ren's hand and lead her over to his bed and put gentle pressure on her shoulders to get her to sit. It was messy, he'd just rolled out of it, and the cuffs still dangling from the headboard attested to what had happened there earlier in the day. "Sit."

And then he sits in his desk chair. "Alright. You're gonna take a deep breath and explain some shit, okay?" He takes a deep breath, getting his own thoughts in line, fuck why did this have to happen when he was still trying to wake up?

"When you say 'mate' what all d'you mean by that? Is it like bein married? And why's it gotta be a man that's your mate?" He's mildly flattered that she thought of his name first, but he gets a feeling it was more that his was the first name she flailingly reached for and not some kind of carefully considered decision. He was getting the feeling Ren had never made a carefully considered decision in her life and had no intention to start.