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I was not as voyeuristic as the other Alphas. I preferred a more intimate setting with my mate.
Unless it was the heat.
Anetta smirked then left the room, her eyes on the broken chess table before scurrying off.
“I should go and find out what they want.”
Lorelai sat back and shrugged, “Answers that we don’t have.”
Probably.
But after what Kai had told me about the possibility of a traitor, I was wary of any information getting out before it needed to.
Even to the council. Not many wolves would have the courage to go against it, so whoever it was had a vendetta. One we couldn’t sense through the link.
Lorelai climbed off me and pulled her clothes together as I did myself back up.
She moved into me once we had righted ourselves and I held her face, cupping it to look at me.
“Please go back to the room and wait for one of us to be free? We have a possible lead and I would prefer the twins be protected by the only one of us with magic and shadow to use,” I said, hoping asking with a little of information would be enough to convince her.
She eyed me with a frown.
It was the cutest thinking face I had ever seen.
“What is the lead?” She asked.
“Something I want to talk to you about once we have a definite. I don’t want you worrying before you have to. It might be nothing.”
We both knew the likelihood of that was minimal.
“I’ll go stay with the twins because I miss them and because I want to. But I want to know more about this lead once you’re done with the council, deal?” She offered.
It was a compromise. I knew it was the best I was going to get but it was still hard to nod my head.
I wanted to keep her protected from it all but that was unrealistic, I knew that now. I had to trust her.
So I made myself nod.
“Okay, deal.”
She grinned and stood on tip toes to kiss me.
“Good,” she said then we left the library together.
I walked her to the nursery then made my way to the council.
One of the members, Amos, had been down in the tunnels. He was sitting at the table with Kai and Brax.
I knew that meant it was bad because the link was not open.
“What happened?” I asked.
“The rogue scent. It was in the tunnels,” Amos said quickly, his voice low as I closed the door.
“How far in?” I demanded.
“All the way into the mansion, Alpha Derik. I’m afraid a rogue may have already gotten in.”
My mind went to Lorelai and the twins who I had just left alone, and my stomach dropped.
17. The Attack
Lorelai
I went into the nursery, smiling at the twins who were playing in their crib together. They were such happy children.
I remembered the ladies of the village telling me horror stories of their infants screaming at all hours of the night and day.
Zale and Enzi didn’t.
They seldom cried unless we separated them. We had learned not to do that.
I wasn’t sure what made them so content to play by themselves, but it did help when we were at war.
If they needed something, Zale’s shadows came to find one of us, giving us the feelings they were having.
I assumed that was the difference.
The shadows cared for them, not unlike the ones that had looked after my brother and me as babies.
Mom said we had been content too. Well, she had actually used the word docile for my brother, but that made sense now.
I smiled down at them and they did their cute as hell cooing thing that melted my heart.
I reached down to Zale who wore a dark gray linen romper that matched Enzi’s cream one. Hers had frill on the sleeve though.
Zale used his shadows to hand me his rattle.
I grinned and took it, shaking it for him. He laughed happily, kicking his feet and hands before rolling to sit up, reaching for it.
Enzi copied him and I kissed them both on the head.
“I am one lucky Mom,” I whispered then looked between them, “You know Mommy loves you, right?” I asked.
I wasn’t sure if they fully understood but their shadows joined as they so often did and moved over me, filling me with warmth and comfort.
I grinned and lifted Enzi, cuddling her to me.
She was a snuggler. Zale was much more wriggly, his eyes pale as he watched everything, wanting to touch everything.
Enzi was the quiet one.
Tears stung in my eyes, they were just growing so fast–faster than the human children I had known–and I felt like I was missing it.
These enemies, the evil, they were stealing all the moments we had earned.
I missed being with the twins, seeing the light in their souls that chased away the darkness in ours whenever we felt hopeless.
I put Enzi down and grabbed her favorite bunny book. I handed it to her and read out the words on whatever page she turned to.
Her dimpled smile widened when she pointed to the bunnies. Zale kept rattling his rattle.
It warmed my heart to see them so happy in such a dismal time, but they were, and they were safe. That was what mattered.
That was why we fought.
I moved the twins to the play arena that we had created for them. It had a knitted rug, some teddies, handmade dolls.
The pack had even been steadily sending little carved figurines, which was adorable.
Enzi liked the horse, but Zale always gnawed on the wolf.
I smiled at them as they played, tumbling and crawling over each other, showing me something new every few seconds.
I talked to them, told them stories I had been told as a child.
Fairy tales of vampires and wolves, even if I amended them a bit to be less traumatic.
I said words, trying to get them to repeat them as I sat in the pen with them.
It hadn’t been long since Derik had left when I felt a tingle down my spine.
I frowned and looked around the room.
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