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It was true, they shared the same eye color and the same heavy freckles across their noses. Suddenly it hit me why Malachi had looked so familiar: his eyes were the same green as my mother’s and Selena’s.
The same green that Stella’s eyes were slowly morphing into.
I took a closer look at him. It really was hard to believe that this man who looked so young and full of life was not only my grandfather, but also an ancient, probably hundreds of years old.
“I know,” he said, the corner of his mouth quirking up in a devious smile. “I’ve been keeping an eye on them for a long time now.
And on you, too.”
I didn’t know whether to find this comforting or creepy.
There was something trustworthy about his face, but I also got the feeling that this was a power of his: winning people over with his charms.
“I’ve been sending Braden out to check on them every day now that the Council has called away your dads and left your mother and sister vulnerable,” he said. “Don’t worry, though. They’re not working on the hybrid project.”
I breathed out a sigh of relief. When my mother said my fathers had been called away on a secret project, it made me sick to think they might be working with the men who were kidnapping and killing she-wolves like us. I was more than glad to hear they weren’t.
“So does that mean you knew that my sister was meeting with Orion?” I asked.
“Yes. And I know you followed them to that bar,” he said. “Not a very wise decision, Lanie. If he’d smelled you or even gotten a glimpse of you… Well, we might never have met like this.”
My face scrunched in thought. If he was so all-knowing and all-powerful, then why didn’t he do something about Orion? Then Mason and I wouldn’t have had to sneak around like that.
“You’re an ancient vampire, right?” I asked. “Doesn’t that mean you have some kind of undead. superpowers or something? So why don’t you just kill Orion yourself?”
who were of shifter descent. But then he set his sights on you and Stella and that’s when things got personal,”
We both turned to watch Mason as he stood outside the cabin, bouncing her lightly.
Alump formed in my throat, and my eyes swam with tears. All these strong, powerful me protect me and my baby.
i were here to “And besides,” he continued, turning back to me, “When I kill Orion-and I do intend to one day soon-then the treaty is broken, and another war will break out. We vampires must be ready before that happens.”
Another war? It seemed so unfair that even once we dealt with Orion it still might not be over.
“Does my mother know you’re here?”
He laughed lightly. “Your mother doesn’t know who I am anymore” Malachi explained. “When she had the spell cast on herself to conceal her vampire side, she forgot who her family was.”
a He looked out over the forest, a sad smile on his face, “Her mother died when she was young, and it took away the pain she’d felt after her death, but it also meant that she no longer knew who I was.”
“That must’ve been so hard,” I said. “To lose your wife and your daughter.”
Malachi nodded. “I’ve lived for centuries, and I’ve loved more people than I can count,” he said. “But she was one of the hardest to let go.”
My ears perked up at that. “Have you ever loved more than one at a time?”
He c ocked his eyebrow, then turned to look back at the cabin again like he knew exactly why I was asking.
“Of course I have. And if you want my advice,” he said, holding me with his bright green gaze. “Take what you want. When you’ve lived as long as I have, you start refusing to settle. Keep the doors open, and use the power you have”
I looked back at Mason, still holding Stella, then Zane across the yard carrying wood inside the cabin, In my perfect world, I wouldn’t have to choose. But was that really possible?
Xander–
Lanie and Malachi walked into the cabin just as things were kicking off with Braden.
“I’m gonna f ucking kill you, Xander!” he cried. “I leave for one day, and you’re already tearing apart my cabin?”
we were currently He jerked his hand toward the sheets hanging from the ceiling and the stack of wood we fitting to nail to the wall that the living room shared with the bedroom.
“I plan on living here again someday” Braden said, “But I can’t if you and Zane demolish it.”
“What the hell is all this?” Malachi asked as he walked in. I rolled my eyes and put down the piece of wood I was holding.
Now the room was crowded with vampires and their smell was filling the air, even overpowering Lanie’s. I fought the urge to plug my nose.
This place needs to be soundproofed,” I snapped. “Or else I can’t sleep here another f ucking night.”
Mason walked in then, and I cut my eyes at him.
“You can tear the wood down when we leave,” Zane said, backing me up..
“Come on, you guys are being ridiculous,” Lanie said, But she had no idea how tortuous it was listening to her and Mason go at it. It would be even worse now that they were mates.
“I agree,” Malachi said. Like I cared what this s tupid old guy thought. Not that he looked old. He looked annoyingly hot and young, actually.
“None of you own Lanie,” he continued, gesturing toward her, “Why don’t you try asking her what she wants instead of pulling her every which way for a change.”
I opened my mouth, then closed it again, I looked at Zane, and his lips pursed into a tight line. Mason looked annoyed, but even he had nothing to say to that.
Lanie, on the other hand, crossed her arms, and the barest hint of a smile tugged at her lips. She was enjoying this.
“Now, Braden and I have more news to gather,” Malachi said, clapping his hands together. “We’ll return soon, and this time, we better not see anyone out of bounds.”
They both turned and swept out of the cabin, Braden yanking the hammer out of Xander’s hand before he could protest “Where the f uck do they get off bossing us around like that?” I grumbled.
Tm the dinha” Maenn mumbled under his breath in a markinn unice: “I knew batte than avarinne What was that?
“Nothing.” Mason said airily.
“I know what you’re doing, and it won’t f ucking work, I sneered.
He was pushing me, probably trying to get me to leave for good this time.
“Not this shi t again,” Lanie snapped. “I’m taking a shower. No one bother me.”
She marched off to the bathroom after her announcement, leaving the three of us there alone.
Lanie–
I turned on the water as hot as I could stand and let it scald my skin..
This whole situation was ridiculous. Orion was out there, trying to steal my baby to build an army of unkillable wolves and we couldn’t keep the peace for three seconds in this house.
It was the sexual tension, and it was only going to get worse. I was already hornier than I’d been since before Stella was born…
My heat cycle was starting, and everyone was acting psychotic.
I thought back to what Malachi had told me: “Keep the doors open.”
If I leaned into the feelings I still had for Xander and Zane then maybe it would take care of some of the tension that was blowing up the house, but wouldn’t that hurt Mason? Wouldn’t that be more trouble than it was worth?
I turned off the water and stepped out of the shower, slinging a towel around myself. As soon as I stepped out, I bumped straight into Xander in the short, narrow hallway.
“Oh, sorry,” I said as he grabbed my arms to steady me, but then he didn’t let go.
Instead, he steered me backward until I was pressed against the wall.
He planted his hands against the wall on either side of me, caging me in.
“Wh-where is everyone?” I whispered.
“Outside,” Xander said. His voice was low and raspy. “I’m sorry, Lanie. I know I’ve been a huge a ss hole, but it’s just because I can’t stand not being close to you. I can’t stand not touching you…not being inside you.”
My heart pounded, but I wasn’t scared. I was so turned on, I couldn’t think straight. My breathing turned heavy, and my eyelids drooped.
Xander’s nostrils flared, and he pressed himself against me, groaning into my ear.
His hard c ck twitched against my stomach. I wanted to drop the towel so badly, I wanted to unzip his pants and climb onto him, slide him inside of me…..
F uck, what was I thinking? I wasn’t, I couldn’t, my head was spinning…
He leaned down and nipped at my neck, the same place Mason had bitten me the night before.
“I f ucking need you, Lanie. I’m starving for you.”
Mason–
When I turned the corner into the hallway, I almost had to laugh.
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