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“You need to understand how rare this is. In all the years I’ve been trying to understand my own life and that of my daughter, I’ve only heard rumors and stories. And, Lanie, keep in mind that Hazel’s bloodline was much shorter than your daughter’s. My father to me, to my child. Stella’s bloodline goes back another entire generation, which ought to have diluted it even further.”
“And, no other hybrids are showing the same traits,” added. I was desperate to put all the pieces into place, but some of them simply would not fit. “But why?”
“That’s something the High Council is trying to figure out with what they’re doing in that facility.” Her lip — tha used. “That diamustian alaan. I’m in it burient to the aratind “I’m with you on that one.” A shudder rippled over me at the memories of the horrid building. The smell.
The harsh lights.
“You were very brave, you know. Going after those babies. The children of your rival. I doubt many others would’ve done the same.” Charlotte sounded admiring.
I frowned and shook my head, uncomfortable with the praise. “The children could not be blamed for the circumstances of their conception.”
“That’s true, but that still doesn’t mean that what you did isn’t commendable. I doubt their birth mother would’ve done the same, if the situation were reversed.”
“We’ll never know, because she died,” I said, a little too harshly. “There’s no point in wondering what she might have done. I am their mother.”
Charlotte chuckled. “Thank Goddess. You’re not perfect.”
“Huh?” My brows knit.
“You’re not perfect,” she repeated, but in a kind voice, “Your jealousy over the woman your mates all loved is still there, even if you try to pretend it’s not. It’s very real, very relatable, and very understandable.”
“I didn’t come here to talk about Alice,” I snapped, hating that Charlotte’s insight felt spot on. “And I’ve never claimed to be perfect.”
“Good thing. That’s likely to be the swiftest way to have the Goddess show you how wrong you are.” She grinned.
After a few seconds, I returned it. I wasn’t sure I liked Charlotte. I wasn’t sure I one hundred percent trusted her. But I was starting to understand her.
“I want to meet your daughter,” she said next. “I have some theories, and I do have more information to share, but here is not the place. We’ve just about worn out our welcome.”
I glanced around and for the first time, started to notice some curious glances. “Did you…do To shield us?”
Her smile told me the answer was “yes.”
My Luna intuition told me that having her meet Stella was the right choice, but I also knew it was g be a hard sell for my mates.
When I told her this, Charlotte laughed. “Understandable, and if they weren’t concerned, I would wonder why they weren’t. So…
Let’s start with Xander. Come on. You’ll have to help me convince him.”
Xander–
I’d been waiting here in this roadside diner for hours without a word from Lanie. Not a peep through the mind link. It was driving me crazy. The rational part of me knew that she could handle herself. She was one of the strongest women I’d ever met, not to mention a Luna of incomparable talents.
“F uck rational,” I muttered and was half out of my seat when my phone buzzed.
I grabbed it out of my pocket, already knowing it wasn’t Lanie. Zane’s text was short and to the point.
All good?
I wanted to type a few paragraphs of my frustration back through the phone, but I settled for replying, No word yet.
“More coffee, hun?” The waitress hovered a full pot over my empty mug.
My stomach was already eating itself from all the acid, so I shook my head. I checked the time. I sent out another probe through the mate bond, pushing hard this time.
Still nothing All around me, various humans were digging into big platters of pancakes and sausage. Some were cclearly on dates, while, as the night wore on, more filed in looking to fill their bellies with carbs and fat to soak ups all the alcohol clearly running through their systems.
Maywolf paced, growling and upset at the proximity of all these humans. Most didn’t even bother to giacce my way. Not even the single females, and that definitely wasn’t something I’d expected. I looked around.
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He sauntered all the way from the otheesicide of the room, casual and cool as ice. He slid into the booth seat across from me and nodded at the watresssaofiline mug he flipped over.
“Who the f uck are you?” I managed to keppibsgow out of my voice, but the words still came out hard and cold and bitter.
Something wasn’t right about this guy. He smiddot My nostrils flared as I drew in a breath, then another. He wasn’t wolf. Not vamp, and not a witch…
“You wolves. So sheltered.” He shook his head and oppoedd a packet of sugar to pour into his coffee. “So ignorant, since your Council erased your history and kept you apart from the rest of us. I’d feel sorrier for you if you weren’t all such arrogant p ricks.”
I ba sted, but his laughter shoved me back into my seat The eucleare you?”
He held out his hand. “Name’s Greyson. Dragon shiftae Andammharedodake you to your lady.”
Xander–
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better with Xander at my side, his arm slung around my shoulders, almost pinning me next to him. He was going to keep me close for awhile, I could sense that. I didn’t mind.
When Charlotte introduced me to Greyson and said he was a dragon shifter, though, I let out a long, incredulous laugh. She frowned and looked a little pis s ed off, but Greyson only grinned and nudged her with his hip.
“It’s fine,” he said as my laughter died down. “I suppose if I were you, I’d laugh, too. Seeing as how I’m willing to bet you had no idea we even existed until the moment Charlotte told you.”
“Just like we didn’t know about vamps.” Xander sounded sullen. “The f ucking Council has been really screwing all of us over.”
“All that’s going to change,” Charlotte vowed.
I quickly y sent a series of thoughts and images through the link to update Xander on at least some of what she and I had covered. I’d have to fill him in with more detail later. For now, I had to get him to trust her, and her shifter boyfriend.
That part I’d figured out the second he looked at her. Charlotte didn’t seem to notice, or she was maybe pretending not to, but Greyson was clearly head-over-heels for her. The casual way they touched each other told me they’d been together for at least a little while.
What really surprised me was how easily Xander had taken to Greyson. They weren’t buddies, but at least my mate wasn’t trying to fight him. This was curious, but I also noticed something particularly soothing about the other man. Maybe it was his voice, low and smoky We covered the basic details in a few minutes, and to my surprised relief, Xander was the one who offered for Greyson and Charlotte to come home with us. He even called home to let Zane know we’d be bringing strangers so there’d be no shocks.
off.”
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