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I wanted her to want me as much as I wanted her before I touched her.
We weren’t going to repeat what had happened between me and Alice.
I’d already lost one person I loved to Xander and Zane, but even I had to admit it wasn’t totally their fault. Alice was playing with me, twisting my emotions to get what she wanted.
I’d told her I loved her, then made the mistake of confiding the biggest secret of my life: I was Orion’s son, At the time, I thought she’d realize that I was as much an Alpha as Xander, and that she’d finally leave him and Zane for good But she didn’t And as it turned out, she’d already confronted Orion about who I was. There I was, thinking I’d confessed my deepest secret to her, but she already knew.
I st upidly convinced myself that it was complicated, that she kept seeing me because she loved me. She was just covering all her bases by f ucking me and Xander.
She never really loved me, even though my love for her was so real it nearly drove me mad.
I didn’t think that kind of love was possible again, not so soon after she’d died, but then I saw Katie.
“Are you alright?” I asked, turning to her and Stella.
Katie nodded and swallowed hard.”
But Stella’s face twisted up, and she unleashed an anguished wail.
Katie’s eyes welled up as she began rocking her back and forth, but Stella wasn’t calming down.
“She’s probably scared,” Katie said. “She can feel that I’m upset, too.”
I felt my wolf retreat We both knew what we needed to do.
I reached out for Stella, and Katie willingly handed her over.
Her hands were shaking and she looked dazed.
“Thanks,” she said quietly.
As soon as Stella was in my arms, she fell quiet and Katie gave me a soft, relieved smile.
An all-consuming warmth bloomed in my chest and traveled through my body.
I’d met Katie days ago, but looking at her already felt like being in love.
Hell no were these arrogant bas tar ds going to take that away from me.
Not again.
Zane
Blade clawed at my insides incessantly.
It had taken every ounce of willpower for Xander and me to push our wolves back down, and now that Mason was holding Katie’s baby, Blade was going absolutely feral.
“Take her away from him,” Blade snarled. “She doesn’t belong to him.”
“Chill the f uck out,” I demanded.
I was almost doubled over with the effort of calming him down.
What Blade was saying didn’t make any f ucking sense.
The baby looked exactly like Mason He was obviously the father.
“She doesn’t belong to him. She belongs to you.”
Katie “Are you sure you’re okay?” Quinn asked again.
I’d already told her yes about a dozen times.
‘dam. You “lam. You don’t need to keep asking,” I reassured her.
After they nearly killed each other, Mason finally told me that Xander was his brother.
Talk about a f ucking bomb drop.
When I asked if he and Asher knew anything about the Constantine Pack, he’d somehow left out that little detail.
But I guess I understood why. They obviously didn’t get along.
Once Mason got me home safely, Quinn came over to keep me company while he dealt with the and Zane situation.
Xander
For the past two hours, she’d been quietly staring off into space, then glancing over at me every few minutes and asking if I was good.
Now that Stella was down for her nap, Quinn’s weirdness was getting to me.
“What about you?” I asked.
at She looked up at me again, a confused expression on her face.
“What do you mean?” she asked.
“You’ve been acting very…distracted ever since you came over.”
Quinn sighed. “I know you think Mason is really great with Stella, but I’m just worried…”
She trailed off and cleared her throat.
“I’m worried you think he’s Stella’s dad. And I can tell you for sure that he’s not.”
A twinge of annoyance flitted through me.
“Quinn, I’m not stu pid,” I said in a huff. “Plus, it would be super f ucking weird if Mason knew that Stella was his child and didn’t say anything to me about it.”
Realistically, I knew this.
But the hopeful (or maybe extremely st upid) part of me wanted to believe that Mason somehow was Stella’s father. They got along so well. And he and 1 did, too.
After all, Mason was my…
What would I even call him? My boyfriend?
liked him, but we hadn’t even kissed.
G ods, this was way too complicated.
“It’s just…l mean…are you sure you’ve never met Xander before?” Quinn asked.
I co cked my eyebrow.
“Xander? Before today, I didn’t even know his name.”
Quinn bit her lip.
“Xander looks so much like Mason, and you always say Stella looks like Mason, so if Mason’s not the dad then-”
“Oh please, Quinn. Don’t even go there,” I scoffed. “He’s an Alpha. And I have zero memory of ever meeting him or his Beta before.”
I took my hair down and then threw it back up into a messy bun.
I was suddenly restless and needed something to do with my hands.
Because the truth was, my wolf did act like she’d known Xander and Zane.
“You can trust them,” she’d said.
But Lily was all over the place ever since I’d shifted after Stella’s birth.
I’d barely heard a peep from her in the three-odd months I was pregnant, and now she seemed to awaken at the strangest times with the strangest thoughts.
Right now, I wasn’t sure she could be trusted.
Xander “What the f uck was that?” I roared, pacing the length of my and Zane’s hotel room that evening.
We’d come to Stillwood to find Mason, and instead our heads had been totally f ucked by some random woman and her baby. An incredibly s exy woman named Katie whose scent was nothing like I’d ever experienced before…. Zane blew out a big breath and shook his head.
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