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“Let me guess,” I said. “She couldn’t?”
My father shook his head.
meet with the same guy.
“Mason,” Zane said.
“Yes,” my father answered. “There was something familiar about him. But it wasn’t until I walked into the bar myself one night to get a closer look at him that I realized…he looked just like you, Xander.”
My mouth flooded with saliva and my stomach churned.
“I was planning on investigating him,” my father continued, “but as I was leaving, he headed me off. And that’s when he told me about the photo he’d found. That’s when he told me he was my son.”
I turned away from my father.
Zane’s hand rested on my shoulder.
“He was a smug mot herf ucker, Xander. I could tell he’d known for a while. Hell, maybe that’s why he was h ooking up with Alice in the first place. To get to me.”
I rubbed my temples, trying to loosen the mounting pressure in my head.
“I wanted to tell you, son. But not until I knew what he was planning.”
His voice was softer, and shaky with guilt, Good. He should feel guilty.
“B ulls hit!” I growled, spinning back around to face him. “You knew Alice was f ucking around on us for years. You could’ve given us a heads-up on that, at least My father sighed deeply.
“You weren’t mated, Xander. You and Zane were single, as was Alice. As much as it might hurt, she wasn’t f ucking around on you.”
“Cool. Yeah, I guess you’d know, since you’re such an expert in that department.”
“Shut your f ucking mouth,” my father snarled as his claws shot from his fingertips.
Zane stepped between us, planting his hands on my father’s chest.
My father breathed in deeply, squeezing his eyes shut until his claws retracted again.
At this point, I was ready for a f ucking fight.
But if news got out that I’d f ucked up my own father, Gregory and Luca s’s rumors about us being murderers might not sound so crazy after all.
“What about after mating?” Zane said, trying to move us forward. “What about the night Alice was out with you, Orion? You still owe us an explanation for that.”
“She was saying goodbye to Maso n,” my father said, his eyes still closed. “I went with her so nothing else could happen between them.”
“Does that mean the pups aren’t his?” I asked.
“I already told you mating ceremony.”
F uck.
There really was no way to tell.
What the hell were we supposed to do with this information?
The only thing I could think of was to track down Mason.
Right f ucking now.
“We’re going to find Mason,” I said.
Zane looked at me like I was crazy.
“We should wait and see if he does anything else suspicious. He’s a f ucking rogue, we have like ten times the power he has.”
“I don’t think you’re going to have a choice soon,” my father said ominously. “If he’s going to act, he will do it quickly.”
“Then where is he?” I demanded.
“You’ll find him in Stillwood.”
Zane
The next day, Xander and I found a rare moment alone with the pups.
while!
He rocked Lanie gently while I held our baby boy.
We’d decided to call him Isaac after my father who died in the Great Wars.
He was only a week old, but already he kind of reminded me of him.
He was gentle and patient and rarely fussy, and whenever his sister got upset, he would reach out his hand to touch hers.
It was very f u cking cool.
“D amn, can you believe we’re fathers?” Xander asked.
We’d been tied up with so much s hit the past week, from Alice’s mourning to hunting down Mason to all Xander’s family drama that we’d hardly had a moment to just breathe and be together.
“No way,” I said. “But we sure do love hanging out with you guys,” I said in a sing-song voice as I touched my finger to Isaac’s chin.
“Yes, we do,” Xander said in his own high-pitched baby voice. “You’re our little killers.”
We both looked at each other and laughed.
Who the f uck were we?
Not the same men we were a week ago, that was for sure.
I liked this new version of us, and I could tell by Xander’s wide smile that he did, too.
“And no matter what your grandma or the rest of the pack says,” Xander cooed, staring down at Lanie. “You’re going to be an amazing Alpha one day.”
Katie “Sorry I left in such a hurry yesterday,” Mason said as I let him inside.
Stella was currently taking a nap, so we had a rare moment alone.
“Yeah, what was that all about?” I asked.
After everything Quinn had told me, I was even more sure he’d been hiding something. “Someone I was close to passed away last week,” he said.
His eyes shined with sadness.
That explained why he seemed so distracted.
He probably needed space to grieve.
And here I was being all nosey.
Way to go, Katie.
Way “Thanks. We hadn’t talked in a while, but still. It was hard to hear.”
I guided him over to the couch and rested my hand on his knee.
“If you need anything. I’m here for you,” I said.
He gave me a crooked smile, and my stomach swooped.
G ods, he was handsome.
“Nah, I’m all good,” he said.
Amu ffled grunt sounded from the back of the house.
Stella was awake.
And if I didn’t get her up immediately, it would turn into a full-on wail.
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