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28. The Family
Lorelai
“Kai, you know he didn’t mean it,” I defended, even though I still remembered the ache it had given me.
I hadn’t known it would feel like that. Nobody warned me about what happened when the bond was tested.
I knew now and could safely say it sucked.
Harder than I sucked my three Alphas’ cocks, and that was saying something because they were fucking huge.
“Little Luna. I love you more than my next breath but get the fuck out of my way,” Kai growled, stalking forward into the hospital room.
I backed up with Brax behind me. Something I had insisted on.
“I can handle Kai, Spitfire,” Brax offered, but they didn’t get it. I didn’t want them to handle each other.
I had been in more pain than I had ever thought I could handle for the last two days waiting for Brax to wake up, not knowing if he was going to.
I would rather get tortured by the vampires again than feel any of them hurt again.
“I can be reasonable,” Kai said, slowing, “One hit. That’s all I want.”
I rolled my eyes. Did it always have to end in violence and pain?
I went to say no but Brax stepped away from me. The second he did, Kai launched at him.
“Stop!” I screamed as they threw each other into furniture, breaking everything.
They either didn’t hear me or they ignored me because they didn’t stop.
Kai launched Brax into the wall on the other side of the room. Brax came back, tackling Kai to the ground.
It went around and around until I couldn’t take it anymore.
“Stop!” I screamed again but this time I used my shadows. They tore my Alphas off each other and pushed them to other sides of the room.
I could only hold them for a second but it was enough to break their concentration from each other. My shadows snapped back to me and I collapsed, exhaustion pulling over me.
“Damn it,” I muttered as I drew in breaths that were harsh and raspy.
I hadn’t been able to use right since Brax had gone under.
“Little Luna,” Kai said running over. Brax was there too but I pushed them away, getting to my feet, brushing myself off like it wasn’t a big deal.
“What’s wrong?” Brax asked.
“Nothing–” I tried to get out, but I should have known Kai wouldn’t let that one go.
“You’re what’s wrong, fucker,” Kai snarled at Brax.
“I didn’t do anything,” Brax frowned.
“You didn’t do anything? She used her magic on you, and now she doesn’t trust it so it’s turning on her. She can’t let it out, and it has made her shadows weak. And as if that wasn’t enough, she hasn’t slept, can’t stomach food, and has been holed up between here and the nursery since you went out,” Kai snapped, shoving Brax against the wall.
Brax looked horrified, but I shook my head, “Don’t. I just want to move on. I’m tired, and I don’t want us to hurt anymore. Can we just go to bed?” I asked, that weakness in my veins getting heavier.
I just needed a really good nap with my Alphas.
“I didn’t know,” Brax whispered.
“You should’ve,” Kai snapped, then stormed out of the room. Well, he went to.
Then he stopped at the door and looked over his shoulder.
He took a deep sigh, then hung his head, “Are you coming Little Luna? I’ll sing you to sleep if you want?” He offered.
I wanted that so badly. But I needed all three of them to sleep. The spot where Brax curled up between my legs had been empty and I couldn’t–
“I’m coming, Spitfire,” Brax said, grabbing my hand and walking with me.
Not even Kai argued, letting Brax come into the suite. I wasn’t sure if he would.
“Where’s Derik?” I asked sleepily.
“He’s on his way,” Kai kissed my cheek and pulled the blankets down. Then he edged me to the bed and knelt down, taking off my boots.
Derik came in and glared at Brax before putting a cup of tea on my bedside table.
He pulled my lips to kiss his, looking as tired as I felt.
“Run her a bath,” Derik said to Brax, not looking at him.
I felt Brax’s stab of guilt and hated it.
The room was so tense, our link aching in my head and chest.
It wasn’t meant to be like this.
But Brax went and ran me a bath and when it was done, my tea was finished.
I went to the bathroom with Brax, leaving Derik and Kai in the bedroom.
I got in the bath and Brax knelt down next to it. He grabbed a cloth and wet it in the milky water.
He watched me, moving slowly as he dragged the cloth over my body. I shivered as he did, sighing as his touch soothed me.
I was so tired, but so relieved. I finally felt like I could sleep without the nightmares of seeing my magic launch Brax.
My fingertips tingled, my magic edging into my consciousness but I ignored it, pushing it back.
It should never have let me attack my mate like that. It should have known it wasn’t truly what I wanted.
“Unless in that moment you did,” Brax murmured, still cleaning me, “It’s okay if you did. I know what I did. How I made you feel in those moments.”
“I didn’t want you dead,” I whispered, my eyes stinging with tears.
Brax dragged the cloth over the swell of my breasts, then down my stomach.
It was a little softer than I was used to after birthing. A few marks on either side made me self-conscious but my Alphas kissed away my worries every time.
“But I understand if you wanted me hurt, Spitfire. I deserved it. I should have found another way to get to Heather.
When I sensed the powder and knew what she was going to do, the idea of letting her so I could use it should never have crossed my mind,” Brax apologized.
But I wasn’t angry. I had been. But the pain of thinking I had killed him had sucked all of that anger out of me.
I knew why he had kissed Heather or at least let her kiss him. I knew it had been for a good reason and I wasn’t worried about our connection.
But I did feel different because I had accidentally let my emotions get the better of me in those moments, taking out Brax like he was the enemy.
“You can trust your magic. You can trust yourself to wield it. We need it now more than ever, Spitfire.”
I wasn’t convinced.
“Why? Because the rogues and the witches are going to take us out?” I offered dryly.
He grinned, slipping the cloth between my legs, over my thighs before I could get too excited about where he was caressing.
“No. Because there are creatures being held somewhere, being tortured and they are on our side. We have to get them out before they are killed. I doubt we are going to be able to do that without your magic,” he said.
And he was right. The whispers had been helping, they didn’t deserve to perish for it. But what if my magic got someone hurt again? It didn’t ascertain good and evil. It went off how I felt. What if I felt the wrong way?
“Trust yourself. Trust that the realm has given us what we need to beat the evil that plagues it,” Brax said in a harsher tone.
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