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I scrubbed a hand over my face.
Goddess, how was this all going to work?
“Look, the High Elder has made his du mb-as s decree, and I’d like to keep my pack, so I’ve got no choice but to follow it, and neither do you,” I told Lanie.
I held her gaze, expecting her mind to wander to our night together, knowing what the Elder’s decree meant about us impregnating her.
But I didn’t see desire in her eyes.
Instead, I sensed something deeper, sharper, something like resolve.
It was like I could see the cogs of her mind turning, no doubt about to say something that would pis s me off all over again.. “Sounds like you’re in a lose-lose situation, then,” she said.
Yep, there it was.
“Clearly that whole,” she waved her hand between Zane and me, “thing…with Alice has become a sh it show of epic proportions. And I sure as hell won’t be raising the pups you have with her if I’m expected to have little ones of my own.”
Her lips quirked up in a smirk.
Normally that kind of defiance would make me rage. I was her Alpha, and no one spoke to me like that, especially not after what just happened with Alice.
But something about her, the way her lips looked, the way her heady scent still wrapped around me like a vise grip.It made me want to give her anything she wanted.
And give it to her hard.
I cleared my throat. “Fine, then you’ll both raise your own pups” I said, trying to be firm and not give away my distraction. Zane’s head snapped to me.
He could see right through me, but it wasn’t like he could call me out on it.
Thanks to Lanie highjacking our mind link….
She eyed us both before responding. “Something tells me Alice isn’t the most maternal she-wolf who ever lived, but I guess that’s your problem to deal with. Let’s hope you’re able to convince her to forgive you, otherwise you’ll be in deep s hit with the Council.”
I would never admit it out loud, but Lanie was right.
We f u cked up with Alice, we embarrassed an elder, we circumvented the Council with a loophole we barely understood ourselves, and now we had a High Elder breathing down our necks.
If Alice left us now or we tried to undo the decisions we’d already made, we’d look like fools.
I’d look like a fool.
And an Alpha cannot be a fool It hit me then, like a silver bullet to the heart.
I was f ucked.
Iwas f “Why don’t I make you an offer?” Lanie asked, and I wondered if she could somehow sense my distress But she wasn’t our true mate, so it shouldn’t be that way.
She shouldn’t have that kind of power.
I was the one with the power.
“What could you possibly offer us?” I demanded.
“I can save both of your as ses from the Council…” she said. “If you let me go Lanie Xander looked at me like I was actually crazy.
“No way that’s happening. What makes you think that you, an eighteen-year-old she-wolf from an average family, can save me, the Alpha of the entire Constantine Pack?”
Go ds, he was so arrogant.
And right now, I had no time for that.
“And in case you forgot,” his voice dropped to a low warning growl, “You’re still our mate. We can’t just ‘let you go.”
That’s what they thought.
They’d change their minds soon enough.
I wouldn’t give them a choice.
“You don’t want to be with me, and I don’t want to be with you, I said plainly. “So let’s fulfill the High Elder’s decree and move on with our lives.”
This wasn’t entirely true, and Lily knew it, too, I could feel her pawing at my insides.
You would climb right back into bed with them. You want to experience that pleasure again, she reminded me.
She needed to shut up.
But she was right, which was why I needed to get away from these guys, and fast. The more of them I had, the more my resolve to leave might crumble.
Zane narrowed his eyes and looked me up and down “What exactly are you proposing here?”
Xander shot Zane an icy glare.
“She’s proposing nothing! We don’t take orders, we give them.1
Xander brushed past me in a huff.
“lm done with this conversation.
He started down the hall, but I couldn’t let him leave yet.
I’d overheard their conversation with Alice…If Xander thought I wouldn’t use it to my advantage, then he was st upider than he looked.
I’d tell him so if I needed to And I could only imagine how well he’d take it…
“Fine,” I said, “then I’ll tell the High Elder that Alice isn’t your true mate. Xander froze. “And that she’s refusing to do her Luna duties”
Xander whipped around, his eyes flashing a furious crimson, and Zane’s fists clenched at his sides.
But they wouldn’t act on their rage.
Thad them both cornered “Something tells me the Council won’t take that news too well.”
“You wouldn’t, Lanie,” Xander roared.
Zane leapt in front of him before he could charge at me.
“Let me get this straight… you’re blackmailing your Alpha and Beta?” he asked me.
Technically, that’s what I was doing.
But I had no intention of running to the High Elder myself unless I really had to.
There was too much at stake for me, too, If I launched a complaint against my mates and the Council didn’t believe me, then they might not take it out on only me… they might take it out on Selena, too.
“Look,” I held out my hands in surrender. “I can take on all Alice’s Luna duties and give her the credit. You both were too blinded by lust to see it at first, but you know she doesn’t want to care for this pack”
Xander let out a dissenting snarl, but I knew it was all for show.
Neither of them were actually arguing with me because I was right.
“Alice doesn’t want anything other than the Luna title and to be treated as special for being the Alpha and Beta’s mate.” I continued. “She doesn’t love you, she loves the status you give her If I could’ve dropped a mic, I would’ve And if I’d been anyone other than Xander’s mate, he might’ve ripped me to shreds.
I might not have had the kind of power an Alpha or even someone like Alice had, but I sure as hell could talk my way out of just about anything.
Xander and Zane locked eyes. They were desperate to communicate privately.
Too bad, boys “You sure have a lot to say, Xander told me in a cold, detached voice. “But why should we believe you’ll actually do any of “Let me prove it.”
I thought of Selena, alone at home now that I was gone, counting down the days until she’d be mated, too.
She was the ultimate reason fd uphold my end of our deal “You won’t have to tell anyone you f u cked up by taking Alice as your mate, and she’ll look like the perfect Luna”
There it was all out on the table, take it or leave it.
“But?” Zane asked me, the intensity of his gaze practically burning a hole in my retinas.
“But if I do that,” I said, “then you have to let me go”
“Did you forget the part where you have to produce pups, too? Xander demanded.
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