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“You could start with what it’s like in the bedroooooom.” Quinn drew out the word, making it go up and like she was singing it.
Ahot blush stole over me. “It’s beyond amazing.”
“But…” She twisted on the glider so she could look me full in the face. “How does it, you know…work?”
“It works the way it works with anyone. What do you mean?” I winked at her, knowing what she was getting at. I was just tipsy enough to tease her about it.
Quinn gestured. “Aren’t there just too many…you know. Sausages for the amount of biscuits?”
My jaw dropped at that little description, and then she burst into laughter. I joined her, laughing until tears streamed from my eyes and I had to clutch my stomach against the pains in it from working my muscles so hard.
“It’s not breakfast, Quinn!” I wiped my eyes as my guffaws softened into giggles that flared up again at the look on her face.
“Well, it’s some kind of meal, because it sure isn’t a snack,” she said through her laughter.
“Well, to answer your question, no, there are not too many sausages.” Another rush of heat flooded over me at the memory of the last time we’d been together. All those hands and mouths, worshiping my body and bringing me to ecstasy, over and over…
“Ugh. Look at you, you’re giddy! Seriously, girl,” Quinn added more seriously. “I’m happy for you. Jealous, but I’m also really, really happy for you. So you…ahem, you got your memory back? All of it?”
I couldn’t blame her for asking. If the situation was reversed, I’d have been overflowing with questions, too. But I had to tread carefully with what I shared with her, and the drinks were making it hard for me to be Is sure I kept my stories straight.
I nodded. “Yep.”
“And you found out why you ended up in Stillwood, pregnant and with a different name?” She tilted her head with a curious look in her eyes.
Constantine to confront their father, I went along. And then I found out that Xander and Zane were my mates originally, and Xander is Stella’s father.” I knew I was babbling a little bit, probably repeating myself, but Quinn looked fascinated. “And Mason–
is the father of the twins that Xander and Zane were raising…”
Quinn rocked back in the glider. “What, what?”
Oh, sh it.
I swallowed hard, regretting that I’d let her give me so many drinks. I cleared my throat, trying to keep my voice steady. “Uh, yeah…Yes. Their other mate-”
“Alice,” Quinn said, reminding me that I had told her that part already. “The one who was also sleeping with Mason.”
“Yes. Well, she had twins. And unfortunately, she died giving birth to them.”
All of our laughter faded, chased away with this solemn news. I’d hated Alice once, with everything I’d had inside me. But I couldn’t hate a dead woman any longer, not even if she’d done her best while she was living to ruin my life.
“What happened to the babies?” Quinn asked quietly I lifted my chin. “While I was in Stillwood, believing I was Katie, Xander and Zane were in Constantine, not remembering me, either, I can’t get into all the reasons why, because it’s-
“Complicated, yeah. Sounds very complicated, Quinn interjected softly.
“They were raising the babies they thought were theirs. They didn’t know Alice hadn’t been faithful to them.”
“And they didn’t know you were here, pregnant.”
I shook my head.” When I went back to Constantine with Mason, he found out for the first time, too.”
“So three pups. Two mothers. They all must be close to their doubling by now, if not through the first.” Quinn c ocked her head at me. “You’re raising another woman’s children?”
I wanted to tell her the whole story about the rescue and how it had bonded me to Isaac and Alaina, but I only nodded. “They all belong to all of us, now.”
“You’re a better woman than I would be,” Quinn said. She looked over my shoulder, toward the house. She looked back at me. “Not to alarm you, but it looks like my brother finally got here.”
Mason–
“Asher!”
Quickly, I went over to my best friend where he stood on Quinn’s deck. Asher held a bottle of beer in one hand. He didn’t reach out his other to shake mine. I paused, my arm extended, and slowly drew it back against my body.
He looked pis sed, but when I tried to sense his deeper feelings, the layers and permutations of emotion, I couldn’t reach him.
“I didn’t see you before. Did you just get here?” I asked.
He nodded and tipped the bottle to his lips. He took a long drink, swallowing before finally answering in a distant, bored tone.
“Yep. Wasn’t sure I was going to come, since my sister told me you were going to be here.”
S hit. This wasn’t going to be good. I took a deep breath, again tried to find a sense of his feelings, and got nothing.
“Why don’t we go somewhere to talk that’s more private?” I said with a jerk of my chin inside the house.
Asher’s lip curled, and I saw a flash of his wolf rise in his eyes. “Nah. I’m good. Go on and enjoy the party.”
“Dude,” I said roughly but keeping my voice low to keep people from overhearing. “Are you going to be an as shole about this?”
“Me? The as shole? That’s rich.” He drained the bottle and tossed it with a clatter of glass into the nearby trash barrel. “F uck you, man.”
Asher spun on his heel and stalked away into the house. I went after him. He was climbing the stairs, but I caught up to him at the landing. He shoved off my arm from his sleeve and went into a spare bedroom. I shut the door behind us.
“Look,” I began. “I know I have some explaining “F uck, You,” Asher gritted out. “Explaining? You make it sound like you stepped on my toe when we were taking ballroom dance lessons. You f ucked off to Constantine, and you never f ucking came back!”
“I’m sorry” I tried to reach out to him through our mind link and found only a steel wall. I couldn’t tell if it was because he was blocking me, or if my new bond with Xander, Zane, and Lanie had broken the one I’d shared with Asher.
Tuck you, and f uck your sorry. You’re buddy-buddy down there with that arrogant pri ck Asher spat “That arrogant p rick is my brother”
“He’s the Alpha of the pack you should be running!
“Tm the Alpha, too Asher took a few steps away from me. Confusion filtered over his face. Then rage. “What?”
“Orion’s dead.”
“You did it?”
I shook my head. “No. It’s a long story.”
“I’ve got time,” Asher said in a tone so cold it raised the hair on the back of my neck. “So you’d better get talking, or I’m out of here.”
I went to the window overlooking the backyard, scanning it for sight of Lanie. She and Quinn were still sitting together on the rocker. Without turning around, I sketched out the confrontation with Orion, and how the vampire Malachi had killed him.
“And when he died, I got his Alpha powers.”
“And Xander lost them?”
“No.” I shook my head, turning at last. “We’re both the Alpha.”
“That’s f ucked up. All of this is supremely f ucked up. But you should already know that.” Asher shook his head. His voice had gotten quieter, but his fury vibrated off him in waves.
I sent out a soft push of Alpha energy, intending to calm him. He recoiled. His hands went up, claws extending as his canines dropped.
He snarled. “Don’t you f ucking dare.”
I backed off. “I should’ve been in touch. But there’s been a lot of s hit going down, Asher. I’ve been ah fucking busy, okay?”
“Busy kissing Xander Constantine’s as s, I guess? What happened to our plans? Everything we talked about? I guess that means s hit to you. I guess I mean s hit to you.”
Before I could stop him, Asher shoved past me and out the door. He pounded down the stairs, and I ran after him, taking the steps two at a time so I could catch him as he hurtled through the front door of Quinn’s house. I snagged his sleeve, but he yanked it away and kept going.
“I don’t want to fight you, man,” I growled, taking another swipe.
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He was heading for his car. I lunged again, meaning to grab his sleeve, but my own claws were slightly out, and I tore the fabric.
Asher whirled, his wolf rippling his entire body. S hit, this was the last thing I wanted, but I could feel my own wolf rising, snapping and snarling He was going to change right there on his sister’s front lawn in front of everyone, and I was going to have to do the same to stop him from tearing out my throat.
Zane–
I stopped with my hot grilled sausage halfway to my mouth at the sense of rising rage. I shot my gaze around, looking for Xander. He was talking with Hank, but neither of them looked like they were ready to fight.
I found Lanie with her blonde friend, Quinn. Lanie jumped up from the rocker she’d been sitting on. The anger wasn’t coming from her, though.”
Her eyes narrowed. She found me looking at her from across the yard.
“It’s Mason,” she thought at me.
“I don’t see him,” I replied.
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