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“What’s up with Gabriela?” Mason nodded his head toward the door. “Or is she always that jumpy?”
“Nah,” Xander said. “She hasn’t really been the same since….I guess since Alice got pregnant. And then when she died..”
Xander trailed off and stared down at his food.
Something told me I knew, or should know who she was, but I couldn’t conjure her face.
Mason must’ve noticed my confusion.
“She was Xander and Zane’s mate,” he said gruffly.
Zane’s eyes flicked up to him.
Another pang of nausea hit me, I knew that. But how did I know that?
I cleared my throat and set down my fork.
“I’m so sorry for your loss,” I said quietly. “That’s so hard, losing a mate and the mother of your children.”
“It’s terrible.” Gabriela’s strained voice called from where she was cleaning up the juice on the floor.
I hadn’t even heard her come in again.
“What…what were the twins’ names?” I asked, trying to change the subject.
“Oh yeah, you were passed out for that part,” Mason said, patting my shoulder, “The boy is Isaac, named for my father,” Zane said proudly.
“And the girl is…” Xander started, but Gabriela cut him off.
“Xander, don’t-”
But he ignored her and pushed on…
“Lanie. The girl’s name is Lanie.”
My breath caught in my throat That was the name that girl Mindy had called me at the regional gathering.
I pressed my hands to the table as the room started to spin in front of me.
Did Mason remember, too?
I tried to look over at him, but my vision was swimming.
Asearing pain ripped through my skull.
Everything was suddenly very wrong.
Katie–
Mason had carefully walked me back to the den to rest after my “migraine” at breakfast.
I didn’t know what else to call it.
It was almost like a brain ripple, like my mind was working so hard to dig up a memory that it was physically painful.
I started to wonder if coming here was a good idea after all.
My mind had been pulled in about a million directions, and even when I experienced pleasure like I had with Mason, some other weird flash or feeling would creep in and make me question everything.
Gabriela walked into the room and set down a glass of steaming tea.
“Drink. And then you should go for a run with your wolf,” she suggested.
“Oh, but I have to.
“I’ll watch Stella,” she cut in. “The guys are off doing who knows what. You should take some time for yourself.”
She walked away and paused at the door, studying me carefully. She opened her mouth to say something else, but then closed it and walked away.
I stepped outside in nothing but a robe and breathed in the fresh mountain air.
The scent reminded me of my cottage back in Stillwood.
It was hard to believe I had been there just yesterday I stepped into the woods just far enough that I’d be covered, and stripped down.
The spring breeze still carried a chill that nipped at my bare skin.
Lily immediately surged to the surface and broke free before I could even properly think about shifting.
She sprinted through the woods, and the feeling was honestly miraculous.
When I shifted nowadays, it was only to comfort Stella within the safety of our little home.
The soft ground on my feet, the wind whipping through my fur, the feeling that I could go anywhere I wanted. I’d never remembered having it, and yet I still felt like I’d missed it more than anything.
I was grounded, I was strong, and I was so dam n fast.
“We need to go faster,” Lily said, and my body raced forward at lightning speed.
There it was again. Deja vu. Even my wolf was feeling it.
“What are you doing?” I demanded. Lily was taking over completely, her path locked in. “Where are you taking us?”
“I know where we need to go,” was all she said.
“But how?”
She couldn’t tell me.
We ran and ran until we reached a lake on the other side of the forest.
Lily took me to a patch of dirt on the lake’s edge. She pawed at it roughly.
My nostrils flared. What was that scent?
It was so different from the scents that followed me down the main street in Stillwood or the thick, sp icy scents that hung in the air of the mansion, and yet it was so familiar, too.
There was spice there, but also something older and more papery.
Like it belonged to something ancient. Or someone.
The trees beyond the lake rustled ominously, and I jerked my head up.
“We’ve been here before,” Lily growled, still pawing at the patch of dirt. “When were we here before?”
But I was too busy trying to see who had followed me into the woods.
Another branched cracked, and this time Lily paid attention.
We backed up, hackles raised.
And suddenly, they leaped from the trees, straight at me.
Three of the biggest wolves I’d ever seen.
Katie–
I bared my teeth in a growl, warning them to back off.
The wolf leading the pack charged forward. He was brown and huge, but still smaller than the other two.
Lily barked out a warning, but it didn’t faze him. He sprinted straight for me without hesitation.
I braced myself for an attack that never came. Instead, he stopped short, pawing at the same patch of ground Lily had been obsessed with moments before.
=f The two bigger wolves-a gray one and a pure black one-snarled and slowly padded toward me.
Would they stop, too? Or would they attack?
Lily was just as confused as I was. She was flaring her nostrils, taking in all their individual scents and trying to sniff out any threats. But their earthy, smoky smells were too intoxicating to read.
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