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“Gotta be honest, there’s not a whole lot else for me to do when the boys are on guard duty. This keeps things interesting. She wiggled her eyebrows, “Speaking of interesting. How’s that mystery boy of yours?”
I opened my mouth to protest the question, but Mindy interrupted before I could get a word out.
“Don’t worry about Maxim and Monroe. They won’t find out I know about your secret lover.” She said the last words in a deep. husky rumble.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Doesn’t matter anyway,” I told her. “They probably already know.”
Mindy’s eyes widened.
“Xander and Zane caught us together yesterday” I winced thinking about it. “I got pi s ed off and told them Braden n was my sidepiece”
“Im sorry, you WHAT? Mindy grabbed my shoulders. “What did they do?!”
I thought back to yesterday, to how Xander had actually backed off..aller he’d threat But still, he could’ve picked a fight, and he probably would’ve won.
I still wasn’t sure why he hadn’t.
“For a second, I was worried they were about to start the second Great Wars, but then they just left,” I told her.
Mindy’s face twisted with confusion.
You and me both, girl.
“Okay, but the real question is what did Braden say?” Mindy asked animatedly.
When Xander and Zane left, Braden had been surprisingly cool about the whole thing.
Atingle of electricity shot through my body when I remembered what Braden had said when they’d left.
I’d be happy to reap the benefits of being your sidepiece.
I hadn’t slept with him yet, but that was as open an invitation as you could get. And standing there, his smell wrapped all around me, our skin still touching from when I’d pulled him close to me, I wanted to take him up on the offer.
But then I remembered the mate bond.
Could Xander and Zane tell if we’d slept together?
Did they leave because they totally called my bluff?
“Ummm earth to Lanie.” Mindy waved her hand in front of my face, and I blinked hard, tearing myself away from my thoughts.
“Oh, uhhh…Braden was chill about it, too!
She narrowed her eyes. “Bitc h, we didn’t become friends yesterday. I know there’s more to the story”
I rolled my eyes.
Of course she could see right through that weak-as s answer.
But the truth was, I didn’t know yet how far I wanted to take things with Braden, or even where I stood with Xander and Zane, and until I figured it out, maybe it was best to keep this to myself.
Irested my hand on Mindy’s shoulder and gave her a squeeze.
“Mindy, I appreciate your concern as always, but-
Another knock at the door interrupted me.
This one was much sharper.
“Who is it?” I called.
“It’s Gabriela. May we speak?”
Mindy’s eyes flew open wide. “Xander’s mom?” she whisper-shrieked My heart beat wildly Mindy and I scrambled from the bed. I grabbed my black cardigan from a nearby chair and threw it over my nightgown while Mindy ran her fingers through my bedhead.
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“Come in tried to say confidently, but my voice shook Ata eautiful woman swept into the room Id seen Gabriela before, but I’d never actually met her She turned to Mindy “Please leave us,” she said with a small nod, and Mindy scurried away without another word I didn’t blame her.
She had the type of commanding presence that made me think do anything she asked me to do, no questions asked. “You’re the girl who’s caused all this trouble?” She looked me up and down before fixing me with a fierce glare. “You and I need to have a little talk”
Lanie
I nodded.
Normally I was quick with the comebacks, but Gabriela made me nervous.
“Did Xander talk to you?” I asked her, I could only assume he’d told her about me taking over the Luna duties. At least I hoped it was that, and nothing to do with Braden Her stoic expression morphed into confusion.
If Xander hadn’t talked to her, then I wasn’t about to drop either of those bombs on her myself.
“Never mind.” I waved away the question. “What did you want to talk about?”
I walked her to the armchairs near my bed and we sat across from each other.
“I’m gonna be straight with you,” she said as she folded her arms in her lap.
Oh g ods, what was she about to tell me?
That I wasn’t fit to be her son’s mate? That I was an embarrassment to the Constantine pack? That Xander and Zane were right to reject me for Alice?
Awave of nausea passed over me.
Why did I care so much what she thought or what Xander had told her? I was just going to fulfill my duties as long as it took for Alice to become star Luna, and then I’d be on my merry way, never to see those Alpha-holes again.
“I believe Alice will be a dreadful Luna”
Wait, what?
My face must’ve given away my shock because her mouth curled up in a smirk.
“Surely you’re not surprised to hear that.” She laughed lightly. I take my job very seriously, and I need my successor to care for the other wolves in our pack as much as they care about themselves. And Alice is about as selfish as it gets,”
No. Way.
So Gabriela wasn’t here to tell me how much she hated me…she was here to s hit talk Alice?!
What kind of twilight zone was I in right now?
“I don’t disagree,” I finally said. “But that’s the last thing I thought you would say”
Gabriela studied me for a moment before continuing.
“What do you think of Xander really? She was looking at me so intensely that I wondered if she could read my Where could I begin?
mind.
I hated the disappointment he and Zane hadn’t even bothered to hide when we’d been matched. I hated that he’d used his 1/2
power to cast me off for a she-wolf he liked better. I hated that he’d so easily agreed to let me go when to proposed my bed, Because when we were in bed together, I really hadn’t hated him at all.
And as pathetic as it was, I was still hoping the three of us would end up back there again, somehow.
But I couldn’t tell Gabriela any of that.
a weak-as s answer, and there was not way she was “Our relationship is so new.” I said instead, and then trailed off, it was a weal going to let me get away with that. She barked out a full-laugh this time, the sound echoing around my bedroom, “That’s a very diplomatic answer.” She flashed a mischievous grin. “Spoken like a true Luna.”
“I “Oh, but I’m not I started to protest, but she held her hand up.
“I know everything is f ucked right now with this two mates business. And you’re in a worse position than any of us.” Da mn, I already respected Gabriela, but I was actually starting to like her, too?
“…1 don’t know what to say”
Me? Lost for words again?
This woman had serious power.
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