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I shook myself out of it before the flush on my face or the scent no doubt flooding between my legs could give me away. Ineeded to shut this sh it down right now.
“Did you two forget about the conversation we had where you told me I could have fun so long as I helped you raise your pups? I can still do Alice’s Luna duties and get my rocks off where need to”
I grabbed Braden’s muscular arm and pulled him closer “So…meet my sidepiece.”
I glanced sideways at Braden. He narrowed his eyes ever so slightly before a wide grin spread across his face.
“Braden,” he said. “So nice to meet you both He extended his hand, and Xander and Zane just stared, their faces twisting with disgust.
I could feel the rage radiating off of Xander as he contemplated how to react.
“Don’t..” Xander took a step closer to Braden, pushing his hand aside. “F ucking…” He jammed a finger into his chest. “Speak tome.”
Zane placed a hand on Xander’s shoulder and spoke low into his ear.
“Hey, we don’t need a dead body on our hands on top of everything else.”
Braden scoffed, and my heart stopped.
I raised my eyebrow at him.
He was a vampire and obviously not afraid of shifters, but it was two against one, and Xander and Zane were huge compared to him. He was really pressing his luck.
Braden met my gaze and gave me a crooked little impish grin If I didn’t step in, he was gonna get his head ripped off.
Literally I pushed myself between Braden and Xander “Can you two leave me alone, before I call off our deal?”
It probably wasn’t the wisest thing to double down on my blackmail threats, but after everything rd heard from Braden about the way she wolves were treated, I didn’t have much patience for Xander’s Alpha bu Ils hit right now “You wouldn’t. You have just as much to lose as we do,” Xander spat. “I know why you’re really doing this, Lanie, so you better not f ucking test me.”
Xander “Alice is already out of control,” I complained to Zane over breakfast.
The dining room in our private quarters was sleek and modem, with tall ceilings and huge windows overlooking the forest. It was one of my favorite places in the mansion to scheme and think And g od s did I need to think.
“How the hell could she just not come back?” Zane said, dropping his head into his hands. “Doesn’t she know that kind of behavior makes her look just as bad as we do?”
After storming out of the mansion yesterday, Alice still hadn’t returned.
I shook my head.
“It’s Alice. She doesn’t really think before she acts.
She didn’t understand her role as Luna. She didn’t understand her place as our mate.
Sure, Lanie was fiery and confident, but her moves were calculated.
Alice was all over the f ucking map.
And she was making our lives hell, “If Alice makes a habit of running off like this, people will start to notice. Zane laid his hands flat against the table. “It doesn’t reflect well on us.”
“I get it,” I said, pounding my fist on the table..
He wasn’t saying anything I wasn’t already thinking, but I didn’t need him to repeat the obvious.
Alice was becoming more and more of a liability.
“We’re not fighting in here, are we boys?”
My mother’s voice rang out from the entrance to the dining room, “Ma, you can’t just barge into our quarters like this,” I complained.
She walked into the room with a confident gait.
“As long as I’m still the Luna of this pack,” she leaned across the table and plucked an apple from the fruit bowl in the center, “I can do whatever the hell I want.”
She took a big bite of the apple, and Zane and I exchanged begrudging smiles.
My mother, Gabriela, was a sweet woman who loved connecting with our pack members, which is why she was such a kickas s Luna People felt like they could come to her with anything, and she always offered the best advice.
But she was also a total hardas s.
She didn’t take b ulls hit from anyone, especially me. When my father stepped down as Alpha, she told me she knew I was capable of taking over, but that I couldn’t get complacent.
And she’d been riding my as s ever since to make sure wasn’t “You know I just caught Alice sneaking back into the mansion, my mother said casually.
Zane and I exchanged loaded glances.
My mother noticed immediately.
“What?” she asked. “Did you not know she was out?”
“Obviously we knew I huffed.
“Then you should also know that it’s not proper for a newly mated Luna to be out all hours without her mates” she said.
I rolled my eyes. It was childish, but I’d just been over this s hit with Zane, and I wasn’t in the mood to rehash it with my mother of all people.
“We’re handling it, Ma,” I said through gritted teeth, “I’ll believe it when I see it,” she said, turning to leave. But before she did, she called over her shoulder, “Alice is gonna be al tough one to teach, I can already tell.”
I let my head fall hard onto the table and groaned loudly If she was annoyed with Alice now, what the hell was she going to do when I told her Lanie would be taking on the Luna duties but Alice would get all the credit?
It went against pretty much everything my mother believed in, and I wasn’t sure she’d be able to lie to the packs’ faces when they praised Alice for the work that Lanie did Zane pulled me back up by the hair.
“Get it together, Xander” he said weanly. “We’ll figure this Alice sh it out one way or another. And then…”
He trailed off, but I knew what he was going to say.
And then we could tackle the even bigger elephant in the room. Lanie’s “sidepiece” Braden.
I still didn’t know who the f uck that guy was or where he got off talking to me like I wasn’t the Alpha. Like I couldn’t tear him apart in seconds flat..
“You don’t think Lanie’s actually been with Braden, do you?” Zahe asked, his voice tinged with jealousy.
“No f ucking way. We’d know through the mate bond if she had”
This was true, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t something else going on between them. And that didn’t mean they wouldn’t be together in the future.
Just the thought of sharing Lanie with another man, especially this man with his st upid smirk and his stu pid lumberjack outfit, enraged me.
I clenched my fists as my wolf surged to the surface.
No way was Lanie going to sleep with that man.
Not if we reminded her that she had everything she needed right here.
Lanie rd barely woken up when I heard a bang on my door.
Go ds, what was it now?
AHigh Elder coming to check if I was pregnant yet?
Were Xander and Zane about to barge in and ream me out for the whole sidepiece thing with Braden?
“Helloooo, Mindy’s voice called from outside the door. “I’m knocking like you asked!”
Relief washed over me.
Mindy I could handle.
“Come in!” I called back She marched straight in and plopped down on the bed.
“Where the hell did you disappear to yesterday?” she demanded. “I even snuck into the library myself thinking you’d be there.”
My heart swelled.
Even though we were mated off, Mindy was still as loyal as ever.
But then it hit me what she’d said, and I punched her arm.
“What the f u ck?! You could’ve gotten in huge trouble with Maxim and Monroe!”
They were sweet men, but their job was to guard Xander. They’d have no choice but to punish Mindy if they found her prowling around their private quarters. “I told you not to stick your neck out for me like that”
She shrugged.
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