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I hadn’t forgotten, but I wished I could.
“When Alice gives you pups and becomes the perfect Luna,” I explained, “no one will look twice at me anymore. Everyone. including the Elders will see that you guys were right in choosing Alice, and then you can publicly reject me for not being a fit mate.”
I took a deep breath.
“And you can banish me from the pack forever.”
Zane
Banish her forever?
Asick feeling crept up from the pit of my stomach and settled heavily in my chest.
Was that really what I wanted? For Lanie to leave?
I didn’t speak and neither did Xander. I could sense his unease, too “I promise I’ll never come back if that’s what you’re worried about,” Lanie said, confusing our hesitancy for mistrust disappear into the ether, like a vampire or witch or something.”
I could tell she thought she was reassuring us, but based on the tension that still hung in the air, it was having the opposite effect.
She looked closely at Xander and me, almost studying us, like she was waiting for some specific sign or answer, “Okay, then, Xander said behind me.
I could feel his heart racing as fast as my thoughts.)
I nodded at Lanie, signaling my agreement, and she blinked hard.
“Okay” she finally said quietly And then she turned to go.
Xander
Without speaking, I ripped my shirt off and ran outside.
I knew Zane would follow This house was suffocating. There was always someone there, listening in even when we didn’t expect it. Alice at the door, Lanie inside our minds…
It was too much.
I needed to run.
I needed to think.
I needed to shift.
My wolf Hunter broke free as soon as I crossed the threshold of the mansion, and I transformed right there, the rest of my clothes ripping to shreds as I fell onto all fours.
I sprinted into the woods behind the mansion, not looking back.
The cool breeze ruffled my rich, black fur, carrying away the chaos and confusion of the last twenty minutes with it. I could finally think clearly again.
I heard another set of paws padding behind alongside me.
Finally, we could speak again as wolves.
But for a brief time, we just ran and ran.
“Lanie’s plan would actually work,” I finally communicated to Zane, breaking the silence.
Now that we had two mates, moments like this where we could talk openly would be fewer and farther between. Lanie had already used our words against us.
We couldn’t risk giving her more ammunition to get what she wanted.
I asked the question that I could tell was on Zane’s lips earlier, too. “But what happens to us when she leaves?” When Lanie had mentioned being banished, a strange feeling of yearning had already begun to well in my chest. It was like I already missed her, and she wasn’t even close to leaving yet.
I thought if I shifted it might go away, but with Hunter at the helm, the feeling needled even deeper inside me. What the hell did that mean?
“We’re both drawn to her, Xander Zane answered, “And I think I think I want her to be here.”
Do you feel the same way about Alice?” I asked, even though I knew his answer would match my own.
“No. And I don’t think I ever will now that I know what it feels like with Lanie.”
F uck.
Zane didn’t bother asking me if I agreed. My answer was obvious We’d gotten ourselves into deep s hit fighting for a she-wolf neither of us actually wanted.
This was a big f ucking problem.
Meanwhile, Hunter pawed at me to return to Lanie.
Go back to her. Mate with her, Hunter said. F uck her until she’s pregnant with our pups.
Lanie had found a way to get herself out of sleeping with us again, but right now, that was the only thing I wanted. And so what if she got pregnant? She’d be a better mother than Alice, that was painfully obvious.
“Thate that Alice manipulated us like this,” Zane said.
So he was thinking about her, too.
“She f ucked us over with that needy little girl act of hers,” I growled.
“But we did the right thing by saving her Zane was right. No one should be mated to Gregory and Lucas, But we shouldn’t be mated to Alice, either………
We needed to be careful how we dealt with her. She’d never turned her wrath on us before, but I knew she had a jealous streak, and who knew what she’d do if she found out we didn’t want her like we wanted Lanie.
I stopped running, my paws skidding across the forest floor.
Zane’s wolf stopped too, and we locked eyes.
We both knew what we had to do.
“We have to get rid of Alice,” I told Zane. “And make Lanie our true mate.”
Lanie
I had no plans to meet Braden, but something was calling me back to our spot by the lake.
Was it a feeling he’d be there, or was it just stup id hope?
Sure, I could sense Xander and Zane’s presence, their emotions even, but we were more connected through the mate bond than I’d initially thought.
With Braden, though, it was something else.
You want to see him. You want his dirty scent all over you, my wolf Lily teased.
But I told myself it wasn’t just that.
He had information, he knew things my mates didn’t.
Before Heft Xander and Zane, I’d name-dropped vampires and witches, just to see if there was any flicker of recognition behind their eyes.
But they ignored the comment altogether, which made me think they had no idea how deep the Council’s lies ran All the more reason to slip from their grasp and wash my hands of all of this, sooner rather than later.
But first, I needed answers.
Awave of relief crashed over me as I walked up to the lake and saw Braden Someone who might actually be able to help me out of this mess.
His back was to me, but I recognized the clean-cut hair, the flannel shirt, that tight as s in those perfectly-fitting jeans… Go ds, he was gorgeous..
For one wild second, I imagined sneaking up behind him, wrapping my arms around his lean, muscular torso, pressing my face to his back, and inhaling deeply, letting his sp icy, intoxicating scent wrap itself around me.
Maybe Lily was right.
Just the thought sent a rush of longing straight to my center.
“Are you just going to stand there, or come and see me?” Braden called out, before turning around to face me.
Suddenly the heat that had settled between my legs rushed straight to my cheeks.
S hit. Could he smell how turned on I was?
He flashed me a wide, dazzlingly white smile and his green eyes twin kled mischievously.
u That wasn’t helping things.
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