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“Did you talk to Rhiannon?” Katie asked.
I shook my head emphatically. “No time,” I said.
This Braden s hit was nothing compared to the secrets Xander and his pack were keeping from us.
There was no chance in hell I was telling Katie what I’d overheard Gabriela saying-it might make her event more desperate to uncover her memories. What if she discovered that Xander and Zane really were her mates and she decided to leave me for them?
Gods, I was spiraling now, too. This place was making us all crazy.
I’d tell her what I heard Xander and Zane saying. Nothing more.
I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down. “I overheard Xander and Zane talking. They’re planning something bad.”
Katie–
My heart dropped into my stomach.
That sounded pretty f ucking foreboding.
Plus, I’d never seen Mason look so pale and scared before.
“What a arriving are they planning?” I asked as Mason dashed around, picking up anything we’d unpacked since “They’re going to throw me under the bus,” he explained. “They’re going to drive me to the Council and force me to turn myself in. They’ll make me confess to biting Braden and goddess knows what else.”
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“But if you turn yourself in and the Council detains you, then what happens to me?” I asked. My stomach turned over, and tears burned my eyes. “What happens to Stella?”
My voice sounded high-pitched and cracked, I looked down at my hands and they were shaking uncontrollably.
Mason stopped and walked over to me, taking me by the shoulders.
“They’re planning on driving you back to the Constantine mansion,” he said, his gaze blazing with fury and concern. “They’re going to keep you locked up there.”
I couldn’t believe Xander and Zane would ever do such a thing or that Gabriela would actually let them, but why else would Mason be so upset?
o stay in the If he was telling the truth, then what would happen to Stella and me if we were forced to mansion after everyone who lived there had lied to me?
Awave of nausea crashed over me. I was not about to let my baby be trapped in that place. Not again, and certainly not without Mason to protect us.
At least when Mason had suggested turning himself in, he’d wanted to take me back to Stillwood to be with the closest thing I had to a family.
“I can’t go back there,” I whispered. “I can’t take Stella back there.”
“I know,” Mason said. “I won’t let that happen.”
I was suddenly hit with a pang of panic. What would happen to my memories? Would they lock me back. up in the mansion and continue to lie and gaslight me, knowing I’d never find out the truth about myself beyond the fact that I was a hybrid?
“But wait,” I said, “what about the spell to recover my memories?”
gaze Mason shook his head, “I saw…I don’t think it’s possible,” he said hurriedly. He shifted his downward and his eyebrows knitted together. It seemed like he knew more, but didn’t want to say.
I’d have to get Rhiannon to do the spell myself and get my memories back before we left this place. It was now or never. Maybe she could rush through it if I begged her. I just had to find her and do it now.
But something told me Mason would try to talk me out of it. I’d have to lie.
n away fr “I need to see Braden,” I said, Mason. “To say goodbye.”
His head jerked back up to me. “I don’t know, Katie, that might make it harder when he…
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I held up my hand, silencing Mason, I didn’t even want to think about Braden dying right now.
“Everyone has taken everything else from me,” I said, my voice shaking “Just let me have this”
His lips pursed together forming a tight line, and for a moment, I thought he’d tell me no “Okay,” he finally said “Til finish packing Be quick.”
I dashed out of the room and down the hall, praying I wouldn’t run into anyone else “F uck,” I muttered.
I was just about to throw open the first door when an ear-shattering scream split the air.
Katie–
What the hell?
I turned back toward the door to mine and Mason’s room, immediately wanting to hold Stella and make sure she was safe. But before I could move back down the hall, Rhiannon crashed into the hallway.
“The ritual is off,” she shouted at me. Her face was twisted with anger and pain. “Your memories are gone.
forever, thanks to one of Gabriela’s disgusting dogs,” she sneered.
“What happened?” I asked her. She looked sick, almost green in the face, and unsteady on her feet.
She barked out a mirthless laugh. “Someone ransacked my spell supplies. Ingredients I’d worked at lifetime to gather…
destroyed in one night.”
Her voice was manic and high-pitched “This is why I hate werewolves.”
Panic shot through me. F uck. How would I get my memories back now?
Suddenly, Xander and Zane came sprinting down the hall, with Gabriela trailing behind them.
They ran up to Rhiannon, and I instinctively stepped back, slowly inching back down the hall to where the guest rooms were.
Now that I knew Xander’s plan, I wasn’t interested in being anywhere near them.
“YOU!” Rhiannon screamed, shoving a shaking finger toward Xander and Zane. “You’re the ones who destroyed everything!”
“Whoa, whoa,” Xander said. “Destroyed what?”
“Very funny.” Rhiannon laughed hysterically, but she clearly didn’t find it funny at all. “I know what you’ve done. Is this why you actually came here?!” she demanded.
She lunged at Xander and he stepped back, his face wrinkling in confusion.
“We really don’t know what you’re talking about,” Zane said.
Rhiannon narrowed her eyes, and I saw them flash with an eerie light. Was she about to do magic?
“You don’t, do you?” she said wickedly. “Maybe this will teach you not to touch a witch’s sh it again.”
She raised her hands high in the air, and a cr ackle of electricity jumped between them.
“NO!” Gabriela cried, diving at Rhiannon and knocking her to the ground. Her head hit the floor with a smack and lolled to the side.
Gabriela’s eyes widened in horror.
“What the f uck?!” Xander said. “Did you kill her?”
when she wakes up.”
“Zane, grab Mason, we’re taking him to the Council.” Zane ran toward my room, not even glancing at me as he passed.
So Mason was right. They really were going to force him to hand himself into the Council. Did that mean they were going to take me back to the mansion, too?
I backed away slowly, wondering if I had any chance of grabbing Stella and slipping away, but then Xander rounded on me.
“Pack your bags and get Stella. We’re taking you home.”
They would lock me away again, just like Mason said. Not if I could help it.
“No,” I said. “I’m not going.”
Xander raised his eyebrows. “Yes, you are, Katie.”
“No, I’m not,” I argued again before diving for the door next to mine-the door to Braden’s room.
Iran inside and slammed the door behind me, thanking the go ds it locked from the inside.
I latched it and sprinted to Braden’s beside.
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