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Her words made sense to me. Didn’t I feel a lot older than eighteen? By the Moon, so much had happened.
since my Mating Day that I realized I’d entirely forgotten about my birthday I was nineteen already. Closer even to twenty than eighteen. I shuddered at the realization and looked up to see the woman studying me with a small, secret smile.
“You know exactly what I’m talking about, don’t you?” she asked “And this is because we are hybrids? I don’t understand. There are others who age normally. My mother, for example.” I hesitated, thinking of my precious Stella, who seemed to be growing and maturing extra fast.
DarkLuna snorted softly and drank some more of my beer. She lifted the glass toward me. “You sure yo you don’t want one for yourself? You might need it “No. I want my mind to stay clear” I shook my head.
you everything ikhismow My real name is Charlotte, first of all, so don’t feel like you have to Keamtthmpoofime by that old web usumaname if I’d known then how long it was going to follow me around, wouldn’t have picked something so..enten &
Burwhatcan I say? The ‘net was young. It’s what we did.
Asmall smile proficit at at may ups Tm Lanie.”
“I know that, shesaditouwave no explanation about how I stopped myself from as kin anul Charlotte was going to tell me in her own way and time, and no matter how desperate I felt. I needed to tot bener is it, “I was born in the late 7ONING: far from here, actually. I’ve been all around the world, but guess what hey say is true. There’s no placa dik eltonoma Her lips pressed together for a second. “My father was one of the Ancients. A vempire called Ezekiela biheveve you might have some first-hand knowledge about the Ancients Again, I wondered how she knewesosaunlichnabout me I nodded. Yes. My mother’s fetishes la placach. Did you do you know him?”
Charlotte’s expression went carefully blankn know him: Sure.”
“But you didn’t know he was my grandfathanerpiecessed her This was curious. Was it possible than Charlemortech fad actually know as much as she pretended to? Or was there something else about my grandfather thehambritenen troking that way?
“My mother was a wolf shifter. Like youngrandnorth Charlotte said without answering me.
“Which means that you and I really are alike.e She nodded slowly, then tilted her head to look at menstone of the reasons why agreed to meet with you.”
“Have there been others looking for information?” Agartist opppoenvoyself from asking her how she knew so much about me. Everything was going to come out in tirtene “Over the years, yes. But, Lanie,” Charlotte said. “Nobody else is be on dn live you”
Lanie–
“Back when I first started posting about my troubles, Charlotte said the word delicately, “I had a lot of people commenting. I read a lot of other blogs, too. I wasn’t the only one in a bad situation with her Alpha, but I couldn’t really find anyone who had the exact issues I did. As time went on, and I got more e answers, I stopped writing new content, but I kept the old blog up in case someone else needed to figure out what was happening to her.”
“I’m glad you did.” I snagged a fry, now cold, and chewed it carefully.
“I’m glad you found me.” She sounded sincere.
I still wasn’t sure I could trust her, but I wanted to. “I think….for the first time, I can admit how…. lonely I’ve been feeling.”
Asharp bark of laughter slipped out of me, and I cut it off, embarrassed. I cut my gaze from hers. My cheeks heated.
“Lonely,” I repeated under my breath. “As if a woman with two mates can be lonely. A Luna with not one, but two Alphas. I’m being ridiculous!”
“You’re not. None of this is normal. Nobody else can understand how it feels.” Charlotte seemed as though she meant to reach for me, but held herself back. “Believe me, I know what it’s like to start to suspect you are not the same as everyone else. It is lonely, Lanie.”
“How do you know so much about me?” I asked her finally.
“ALuna with three mates gets people talking,” Charlotte said simply, without adding more than that.
I hated the idea of being gossiped about, but I knew she was right. We were keeping a wasn’t like we were one hundred percent keeping our quartet a secret. “But you didn’t know contacted you?”
“No. I get queries all the time from those old posts. Most of the time, I ignore them. If I’m f a sshole that day,” she paused to chuckle, “I might send them off down a rabbit hole to some dec set up. But when you reached out to me, I could feel that you were legit. But I’m sure you can under had to be wary. Make sure.”
“Of course.” I hesitated before adding, “The Moon Goddess led me to you.”
“I know she did.”
but it More I “My mother-in-law was a powerful Luna. I admire her so much, and I’ve learned so much by watching her. But even she has never communed with the Moon Goddess the way I have.” I whispered the final words. fiercely. Charlotte might be convinced nobody here was going to pay attention to us, but I still didn’t want to I broadcast us being shifters.
Except…we weren’t wolf shifters. We were hybrids. Something entirely different. Not that it would matter if “They don’t really carry pitchforks anymore,” Charlotte murmured when she saw my wild gaze darting.
around the bar.
“Are you reading my mind?” I demanded. It wouldn’t have shocked me.
“Oh….no. I just understand you, because I’ve been where you are. Well, except I didn’t have anyone with the answers for me.
But I’ve been scared like you. Lonely, as you said.” She shrugged and gave me a sad smile. “I didn’t have three good mates. I didn’t even have one good one.”
e was nearly I wanted to ask her what had happened to her Alpha, the one who’d been so cruel. If she two-hundred and fifty years old, had she been posting on the blog about events that had happened centuries before? Or had she been mated with someone more recently than that, the Alpha who hadn’t been as strong? So many questions whirled in my head, but the clock kept ticking away the seconds. I’d just learned I was. going to live for a long, long time, but it already felt like time was running out.
“When you said nobody else was like me,” I asked, “what, exactly, did you mean?”
“Like I said, a lot of people were just asking questions out of curiosity. Some were trolling. You’d think the effort it takes to get on the dark web would mean people were genuinely in need, but…alas. You were asking the right questions, though.”
“So why did you make me go through all the rigamarole?” I waved a hand in the air.
She laughed. “I have to protect myself, obviously. You’re worried about your safety and that of your pup.
Why would you think I wouldn’t be worried for myself? Not to mention that when you’re as old as I am, you end up with a lot of free time to design and code disappearing websites. Sometimes, it was more like a game. With you, even though I felt like I could trust you, I had to be sure you were willing to make the effort. And I was right, wasn’t 1? Because here you are.”
“And you have answers for me?”
She nodded.
Larie Charlotte had somehow, without words, ordered us big platters of juicy cheeseburgers, onion rings, and intore fries. Two giant glasses of water and another couple of beers rounded out the meal. The waitress dropped it all off without speaking to us, and although moments before I’d have said my stomach was tied in ttoo many knots for me to even think about eating anything, the moment the smell of the food hit my nostrils, I was supractically drooling.
That Now! Lily called to me. “Food good!”
Miflash of violet caught my attention. Charlotte was grinning, and for a few seconds, I saw her wolf. dancepaze appreciated that she trusted me enough to let me see her.
Chaitatte gestured. “Dig in. My treat. You have to keep yourself fueled. Have you noticed that your appaditess much stronger lately?”
saate ketchup on my plate and dunked an onion ring for a bite. “Yes.”
Youubaum:creenergy than non-hybrids. You burn brighter because you are a Luna, too. You’ll find that the hunger sibiss and Bows but when it’s there, you really can’t ignore it. Your wolf certainly won’t let you. And you shouldn’t You regret not feeding your body.”
She lifted heredtytburger and took an enormous bite, letting out a moan of pure pleasure.
chewed tantrissvaal towed ravenous but not wanting to talk with my mouth full. “I came here to learn about what’s happeningwithmyddaughter”
Charlotte finished wiped her mouth clean. She sighed, and her lips pursed. She looked like she was trying to find justitchwords/tmpatiently, I bit into my burger. She was right. I no longer ignore or deny this hunger “The High Council wams he/ Chisaitotte said finally My heart stopped. The burgse dunned my throat, almost choking me until I washed it water. For what? Are they coming afterner?
“They will!” She did that same heatintino took me up and down “You went to the facility to re other pups. The ones they took Yourteen consemed about them it because you didn’t gi them?”
Tlove the twins as if they ate my own rodnemy am concerned about them. Absolutely. We rescuing them frorn that facility would intan wcoutthetene targets But I’m worried about Stella because she is different from ther “How so? Describe it to me ver “She’s bigger. More mature. They went through theerermoubiny) but she’s as advanced as a pup twice her age. My hands shook until I forced myself to dertien stetty “Early to speak?”
“Yes,”
Charlotte nodded. She was hiding something from me. I could see it all over her face, which meant that she wasn’t worried about me figuring that out. I’d seen how she could shield her expression. If this was another one of her tests, I vowed I was going to pass it.
“Orion gave the twins to the Council because they had pure vampire blood. Their birth mother, Alice, was also descended from an Ancient vampire,” I said. “We had no idea. Honestly, I don’t believe Alice had any idea.
And she died before she ever found out.”
“Do you know which Ancient?”
I shook my head, thinking back to what my grandfather had told me the day we discovered Xander’s father, Orion, had taken them. “Only that it wasn’t my grandfather, Malachi was certain of that, but he didn’t know, either.”
“Or that’s just what he told you,” Charlotte said with a frown. “You know that even though we carry their blood inside us, you can’t always trust what a vampire says. Wolves are loyal. Vamps…not so much.”
I watched her expression twist. She’d said her father was an Ancient named Ezekiel. Could Alice have been one of his descendants? Did that mean Charlotte could have been Alice’s grandmother?
My mind was being boggled by all the possibilities.
“The Council started their program focusing on hybrids during the Great Wars,” Charlotte told me.
I waited, but that was all she said. I watched her drag an onion ring through some ketchup and eat it. I forced myself not to reach across the table and shake the answers out of her.
“That was a long time ago,” I finally ventured. “Why’d they wait so long to ramp it up again?”
“That, I can’t tell you. I can only say that they originally had no idea hybrids could even ex a lot of information from someone who. ..well. A turncoat. One who betrayed their own kind. C
worst of each part of themselves and allowed that to rise. One who believed they were helpin who ended up destroying everyone and everything they loved.”
Charlotte’s loathing was clear in every word she spit out.
“Who would do something like that?” I asked quietly.
Her gaze met mine “It was me.”
il they got Lanie–
Alternating waves of hot and cold rushed over me. Shudders wracked me. My teeth chattered, and the burger I’d been gobbling now weighed like a rock in my gut.
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