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“By the Moon, it’s good to have you back! All of you,” Maxim said with a quick look at Mason. Maxim gave him a deferential nod, clearly acknowledging his Alpha role.Monroe grinned and slapped Xander on the back, then pulled him closer. “Bring it in, bro. We missed the fuck out of you!”

“Glad to see you seem to have held things together while we had to be away,” Xander said.

Maxim and Monroe high-fived me, then Mason. Their joyful energy was infectious, and I could see Mason relaxing a bit as they treated him pretty much the same as they were treating me and Xander.

“It’s all going to be all right,” I thought to Mason and filtered some calming Beta energy his way.

“They’re good guys. Xander and I trust them wholeheartedly.”

We took seats at the table’s other end, giving our mates room to chat with each other. Xander dug into his plate of food, while Maxim and Monroe filled theirs and then joined us.

“When are you having the meeting?” Monroe asked around a mouthful of scrambled eggs.

Mason shot him a look, then one at Xander, who was spreading a bagel with a thick layer of cream cheese. When Xander didn’t answer, Mason said, “We figured it would happen pretty quick. We don’t want people spending too much time worrying or wondering what happened, or what how we intend to move forward.”

I could feel him almost holding his breath as he waited for Maxim and Monroe to respond. I couldn’t blame him for being a little anxious about it. They were the trusted High Guards, and he…well, he’d made no secret before about his loathing for his brother. It was going to take some time for Mason–

to feel like he had the right to be here, and in charge.

“We’ll call it for after breakfast,” Xander said casually. He didn’t emphasize the “we,” but we all heard it.

Maxim and Monroe exchanged looks.“So…it’s true, then?” Maxim asked after a second.

Xander wiped his mouth. “What was?”

“About your father,” Monroe said. “We were hoping it was just another rumor.”

Mason–

The minute I heard the doubt in Monroe’s voice, I almost got up from the table. I should’ve known they weren’t going to welcome me here. I might’ve been a Constantine by blood, but I’d known for my entire life that blood was not necessarily thicker than water.

“What do you mean?” Xander asked in a cold, hard tone. Full Alpha mode.

Monroe shrugged. “It just sucks to find out that your dad really wasn’t the great guy we all thought he was. That’s all.”

He turned to me. “Xander says you’re his brother, and as far as I’m concerned, that’s enough for me.”

“Same goes for me,” Maxim said so firmly that I knew he meant it.

“Mason, you’re super tense, man. Relax a bit.” Zane’s calming voice reached me through the mind link we shared with my brother.

“They’re cool,” Xander added.

I forced a smile I hoped looked natural as I offered my forearm to Monroe to grip. Then to his…were they brothers? They looked like they could be. I offered my forearm to Maxim for a grip.

“I’m glad to be a part of the pack and share the leadership challenges with Xander,” I told them both, making sure I made eye contact with each of them to show my sincerity. “I vow to do my best to stand by his side and also have his back.”The other two men nodded with nearly identical grins. They looked down the table toward their mate. Mindy and Lanie were giggling, heads together, while Stella watched with wide eyes. She joined their laughter a moment later.

Isaac and Alaina came into the dining room, both looking sleepy and grumpy. Alaina rushed to Xander, who held out his arm to pull her close. Isaac walked a little slower, his eyes already on the food.

“Morning,” our son grunted as he headed right for the buffet.

Alaina hugged Zane next, then me. She leaned her head against mine for a few seconds, and I felt a small press of reassurance swirling around her. I looked at her in surprise, although I shouldn’t have been shocked that she was able to affect me like that. The twins would always share a bond with Xander and Zane from being raised by them from birth, just like Stella shared the same with me. But Alaina was my daughter. My blood.

“I love you, Abba,” she said.

“Love you, too,” I said. “You’d better get some breakfast before your brother eats it all.”

Alaina rolled her eyes. “Ugh. He’s being so gross.”

“He’s growing,” Xander said with a laugh.

“I’m growing, too,” Alaina said, putting her small hands on her hips. Her scowl was fierce and formidable…and I saw a lot of her mother, Alice, in that expression.

Xander and Zane saw it, too. Guilt swept over me like a tidal wave. This was the house where Xander, Zane, and Alice had thought they’d live and be mates together. Where they’d raise their pups. And hadn’t I had some of the same thoughts and feelings about her?The three of us looked toward our Luna as she tipped her head back in a sweet flurry of giggles. I could never have imagined loving another woman as much as I loved her. Never thought I could share my mate with anyone else. Yet there the three of us were, sharing her the way we’d unwittingly shared Alice.

It was a bit of a mindfuck.

“Abba?” Alaina frowned. “Why does your face look like you just ate something sour?”

I quickly pushed away those thoughts. It shouldn’t be a secret that Lanie was not the twins’

biological mother, but yet we’d never really talked about it. They were babies, and then they grew up, but not quite as fast as Stella. It was probably time we let them know the truth. Now that we were all back in Constantine, we’d be fools to think that nobody would ever talk about Alice.

“They’ll have to find out, and better from us,” Zane thought to me and Xander. He’d caught my thoughts, but Xander hadn’t.

My brother looked at Alaina though, brow furrowed, and figured it out. He nodded and thought to us both, “We’ll tell them, but privately. I want them to know we all love them. And Lanie will want to make sure they know that she loves them, too.”

Gently, I pushed Alaina in the direction of the buffet. “Go get yourself a plate. You need a good breakfast so you can keep on growing and not let your brother get bigger than you.”

Lanie’s sudden cry of joy had us all turning. Our Luna stood up so fast she overturned her chair with a clatter. She ran toward the woman in the doorway to the dining room.

Alaina looked surprised. “Who’s that lady and that girl?”

Lanie–

My mother enfolded me in her embrace, and all I could do was cling to her as I shook with sobs. I breathed in her familiar scent. Her warmth. She rocked me as we hugged, and her hand stroked down my back, over and over again, exactly the way it used to when I was a little girl who’d woken up from a nightmare.

“Oh, my Lanie. Let me get a good look at you.” She pushed me away only for a second before hugging me hard again. “No, not yet, I can’t let you go. Oh, I just can’t let you go.”

I closed my eyes and let my mother hold me. It had been so long since we’d been together. I’d forced myself to barely think about her, my sister, and my dads, much like I’d stopped myself from thinking too much about my best friend. It had been easier for my mind to focus on the dangers we were navigating. But, oh, now that my mother was here and hugging me, every second of the time we’d spent apart slammed into me like a hammer pounding a nail.

“Mama?”

At the sound of Stella’s hesitant voice, I turned. I had to wipe away the tears blurring my vision, but I used one hand to do that while I held out the other to gather my daughter close. My mother drew in a sharp breath.

“Is this…?” she asked, sounding awed.

I knew that there’d been some advance word, rumors, about Stella, but since I hadn’t been expecting my mom to be here at the mansion, I couldn’t assume anything about what she may or may not have heard.“Mama. This is my daughter. Stella. This is your grandma, Julia Stanton,” I said to Stella.

“But she’s…” My mom fanned her face, her eyes wide.

Stella might be adult-sized, and she might be special with all the talents of ever supernatural that had ever existed, but I could never forget that she was also my child. I pulled her in next to me, offering my support and warmth. I could feel her muscles trembling the tiniest bit with her nervousness.

“Beautiful,” my mother finished and opened her arms for a hug. “Stella. Come here and give me a hug.”

“Hello, I’m here, too,” a voice said in a sour tone.

I’d been so caught up in greeting my mom that I’d almost totally missed my sister. “Selena!”

She hugged me hard, but only briefly before stepping back. She eyed me cautiously. The last time I’d seen her, she’d been underage, but now she was over eighteen. Shit, I didn’t even know if she had been mated yet. I didn’t know anything about what had gone on while we were away. Had the High Council and Elders still been assigning two males to every female wolf in the pack? Or had that stopped? Were pack members allowed to choose their own mates?

So much to find out…so much to consider about the way things had been and how they were going to be. Everyone was asking me about making changes. Well, I’d finally started thinking of a few I was going to tell the Constantine Alphas to make.

There was more to learn about my baby sister, now that she’d come of age. For instance, had the spell our mother asked a witch to cast to dampen her vampiric powers worked on my sister? It had failed in me, but that didn’t mean it hadn’t worked for my sister.Selena’s eyes blazed soft green for a moment. Her wolf was close. I could sense my sister’s agitation and hated that the first time we saw each other in so long had to be tainted with any bad feelings. But could I blame her for being wary of me? Mason and I had snuck out of my childhood home without saying goodbye. I’d left my sister behind to take care of our mother, even though I knew Orion had been targeting her. She’d told me I had to, but…even so, the look on her face told me she wasn’t ready to accept me back with open arms.

She looked at Stella with a blank expression, very different from the first time they’d met when Stella was an infant.

“I’m your aunt Selena,” she said in a stiff voice. “I’m sure you don’t remember me. You probably never even heard of me.”

“Selena,” our mother said in a shocked tone.

Stella, my dear little star, stepped forward. “Of course I did. Mama told me so many stories about the two of you when you were both little. I don’t remember you from when I was a baby, but of course I know who you are.”

Little white lies. As a Celestial, Stella could certainly call on the memories of anything that had happened when she was a baby. She was being kind and gracious.

Too bad my sister didn’t respond the same way.

Lanie–

“Let her go,” I murmured to my mother when Selena turned on her heel and stalked out of the room.

My mother shook her head as she cast a worried look after my sister. “She’s been having a rough time. I thought it was better, but ever since she heard you were coming back to Constantine…well.

A rough time, that’s all I can say.”

Stella had a distant look in her eyes. I couldn’t be sure, but it felt to me like she was following my sister with her mind but doing it so subtly that my mother wouldn’t guess. Her gaze snapped to mine, and she gave me a small, almost imperceptible nod. Without words, she told me that my sister was okay…for now.

“She was rejected by the mates the High Council tried to assign to her,” my mother said, keeping her voice pitched low. It was rough with sadness. “Not even the threat of prison could get them to agree to the match. She took it hard…not because she was in love with them, but to be so violently rejected…”

My heart ached for Selena. “That must have been horrible!”

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