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Mason pulled out my luggage while I got Stella in her stroller, and we made our way inside behind Xander and Zane.
The place was massive but cozy, with high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, and rich, dark wood everywhere I glanced at Mason. His face scrunched up as his eyes darted around the room.
“So this is how the other half lives,” I could imagine him thinking.
But none of this surprised me.
In fact, it all felt eerily familiar.
The feeling I’d had earlier. it was deja vu.
As Xander led us into a great room with a roaring fire, the sensation that I’d been there before got even stronger Asharp pain stabbed behind my eyes, and I squeezed them shut.
My hand flew to my head, and I struggled to stand as an image swam to the front of my mind.
Xander and Zane coming to me in the night.
I was embarrassed, scared, excited.
“It’s time to mate,” they said.
They led me into a bedroom, my bedroom.
Distantly, I heard myself cry out.
The pain was too much.
The vision was too much.
What the hell was this?
I tried to open my eyes, to come back to the present, but I only fell further into darkness.
Zane–
Mason laid Katie down on the leather couch slowly.
She’d passed out but now seemed to be sleeping it off.
Xander and I stood watch while Mason stroked her hair.
Seeing Katie walking through the house and even now, sleeping there soundly, seemed so…right. So normal. Like this wasn’t her first time here.
“You feel it too, don’t you?” I asked Xander silently.
Xander nodded. “She’s meant to be here.”
I sensed that, too, but it was impossible to explain why.
Blade paced around inside me, turning my stomach inside out.
He wanted to know that Katie was okay. He wanted to protect her.
Xander was clutching at his chest as he looked down at her, and I knew Hunter was restless, too.
“Does this happen a lot?” Xander asked Mason.
Mason shook his head. “No. But she’s been through a lot today.”
“Does she need anything?” I asked. “We can get her some tea or-”
“I’ve got it,” Mason growled.
Stella stirred in her stroller, and a sudden pang of guilt overtook me.
What were we doing standing here, consumed with whether or not this woman we barely knew was okay, when our pups were here?
It had been days since we’d seen them, and we’d missed them every second.
I knew Lanie and Isaac were safe with Gabriela, but Xander and I couldn’t help but worry. They were so young, and they’d already lost so much.
I heard footsteps, and Xander and I ripped ourselves away from watching Katie.
Gabriela swept into the room holding Lanie, and Mindy was right behind her holding Isaac.
“How are they?” Xander asked as soon as he laid eyes on the twins “They’re doing just…” Gabriela trailed off as her eyes traveled over our shoulders to Mason and Katie.
Gabriela’s mouth dropped open in a horrified gasp, and all the color drained from her face.
She looked like she’d seen a ghost.
When she spoke, her voice shook.
“What the hell are you doing here?”
Xander–
“l invited Mason here, Mother,” I said.
I’d never seen her look so rattled.
It made sense, though. He was living proof that my father wasn’t the man he claimed to be for all the years they’d been together.
Mason stood up and extended his hand.
Gabriela shifted Lanie in her arms and shook it in a daze, her eyes flitting to Katie.
“That’s my mate, Katie,” Mason said.
My mother’s brow furrowed, and I thought she might say something else, but she seemed to shake herself out of it.
Thank you for taking care of the twins,” I told her.
She nodded and passed off Lanie to me while Mindy handed Isaac over to Zane.
Wait…Mindy?
Why the hell was she even here?
And why was she looking after our pups?
After that weird s hit she’d pulled after the regional gathering, we’d asked Maxim and Monroe to make sure she stayed in her quarters.
“You looked after them?” Zane asked Mindy.
He was clearly having the same thoughts.
“Gabriela brought me in to help take care of the twins while you were gone. She thought I was the most appropriate choice.” Her voice sounded small and wobbly. Maybe she was scared we’d punish her again.
But her scent told me she was more shocked than scared. Something else had her all shaken up.
She kept looking over at Mason and Katie just like my mother had.
Had she told Mindy about my secret brother? It didn’t seem like something she’d share…
“Maxim and Monroe are your most trusted High Guards,” Mother jumped in. “Their mate seemed like the safest person to help me out.”
“Sure.” I nodded. She nodded back, and then scurried back out of the den.
“These little ones are yours I’m guessing?” Mason asked.
Mason moved toward me to get a closer look and instinctively I turned away, pulling Lanie in closer.
Mason froze, his eyes narrowed, but he backed off without another word.
“Smart,” Zane said. “We can’t risk him getting too close.”
I had no idea if Mason knew he might be the father of Alice’s pups, but I wasn’t about to plant that idea in his head if he didn’t.
away.
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