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Mason–
Greyson and Zane f ucked off to whatever flying grounds they’d been talking about. That left me and Xander to enjoy what turned out to be a ki ckas s hot spring spa far down underneath the enclave.
“I could definitely get used to this, Xander said as we got into a natural stone pool brimming with steaming water. He groaned.
“This is hot as all f uck. S hit, we need to get something like this back home.”
Home.
I was quiet for a second, thinking about what that word meant to me. Was it Stillwood? Was it Constantine?
We spent a few minutes enjoying the bubbling heat before I finally spoke.
“I spent my entire life dreaming about what it would be like to take over Constantine Pack, and now that I have, it means…… f uck,” I said. “It means nothing.”
My brother eyed me with a frown. “First of all, bro, you did not ‘take over the pack, okay? Don’t make me fight you when this water feels too f ucking good.”
I rolled my eyes. “Whatever, dude.”
“Second, it doesn’t mean nothing. It can’t. Can it?” He sounded hesitant.
“We are Alphas. The only ones I’ve met here, even if there are a couple of other wolves. But being an Alpha means nothing without a pack to run. We have our family but that’s not the same thing.”
Xander sat up a little higher out of the water. Sweat beaded his forehead and upper lip, and he swiped it away. “Yeah. It’s weird, huh? It’s like this thing I was told my entire life was going to be the most important thing I would ever do…and it’s just…”
He shrugged.
“It doesn’t really matter,” I said in a low voice We were both silent for a few more seconds. The dripping water from the cavern roof seemed very loud.
Asmall hiss of steam sifted out from a crevice on the wall. The water bubbled lightly, then stopped it still matters.” Xander said finally “If we believe it does, it matters. And when we get back, well figure all of it the f uck out Okay?”
“I barely even met any of them Do they even know th also their Alpha?” asked Xander heaved himself out of the water to sit on the edge of the pool. He scrubbed at his face, raking wet hands through his hair to keep it off his forehead We both needed haircuts fd started wearing one cubed at the base of my neck with a leather cord, but I joined him. The hot water felt awesome, but it was also getting to be way too much. I wished we’d wished we’d brought some water along with us.
My brother sighed. To be honest with you, man, I don’t know. If none of the Elders said anything about it, I’m not sure how any of the pack would know, especially if, like Braden said, the guards that were there w Orion was killed are also all dead. There wouldn’t be anyone to spread the word. For all they know, it’s st me…”
“And you f ucked off to the Moon knows where,” I said with a harsh chuckle.
He scowled. “Yeah. I hate that my pack could think that about me…f uck. I hate that it’s the truth.”
“Do you think they’d have accepted it? Us being co-Alphas?” I let the warm bubbling water lift my feet up and down a little bit.
Xander didn’t answer for a few seconds.
“I don’t know that, either. It’s not common, that’s for sure. They’d have had to have their complete trust in me, and I would’ve had to be solid on having you at my side. Guided them through it. But I think…yes..
If they saw the way we work together now, yes, they would have accepted you as their co-Alpha. You are their former Alpha’s son, it’s not like I picked some rando out of the woods.”
“Son or no, I would be a random to them. And we didn’t work together like this,” I said honestly. “We didn’t plan to work together at all.”
“If my…our father hadn’t been killed, you wouldn’t have become their Alpha and my co-Alpha, and if you’d killed me, they still might not have accepted you. A stranger, a rogue Even being Orion’s son might not have been enough. F uck, man. I don’t know. Unless we get back there, we never will.”
“Growing up without a pack, I always thought that when a new Alpha rose, the entire pack felt it. Like a pack-wide mind link f’d imagine walking into a group of people just cheering and saying my name” I said.
“I guess I was a st upid little pup”
“Better than being a st upid Alpha,” my brother said roughly “Like me”
“What do you mean?”
Xander–
“I took it all for granted,” I said.
I tipped my face back to look up at the cavern ceiling, and a drop of water hit me in the my breath and swiped at it. When my vision cleared, Mason was frowning at me.
“I grew up being told how great I was, and I just believed every word. Every compliment, every bit I knew from the time I was a pup that I’d be running Constantine Pack one day, and I never once bothered think about what that all would actually mean.”
“Sounds like every Alpha I’ve ever met,” my brother said. ‘Arrogant and full of himself.”
I rolled my eyes. “Present company included.”
“Right,” Mason said with a low chuckle and slid back into the water. “It’s not a shock, man. Alphas are born, right? It’s inside you from the moment you take your first breath. Before that, even. It’s just how we work.”
“You, on the other hand, would’ve been the actual Alpha if our father hadn’t been such a pr ick to both our mothers. You didn’t grow up knowing it would be handed to you, but you dreamed about it. Ached for it. Am I right?” I asked when his frown deepened.
“You wanted it, you were determined to get it, but you weren’t one hundred percent sure you would. It wasn’t a guarantee, the way it was for me.”
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“No,” he said after a pause. “I knew that there was always the chance that I wouldn’t be able to defeat “When my dad decided to relinquish being the Alpha, I thought it was because I was so f ucking great, so strong, so whatever-
the-f uck amazing, that he just couldn’t wait to hand it over to me.” I laughed ruefully. “The reality was, he wanted to make me the Alpha so he could get on with all the stuff he couldn’t do when he had to take care of the pack. And here’s the thing, Mason–
something I can’t tell anyone else. Ever”
I tried to find the right words, but there were only a few to be said “l understand why”
Mason–
And I feel guilty as f uck about it my brother admitted, head hanging “Not because I’m away from my pack, but because i dont feel that bad about it I should think my ded was a complete fature as an Alpha because he gave it up so he could do other things. Shotty, sorrible things. But I also get why he had to give it up so he could do, be anything else A few months ago, my brother’s words would have Sure I have done in lost to kill him for that confession us to a fist fight A short time even before that, Iny waited for my fury to rise up, but my wolf only sat Or maybe I’d just found a way to relate to my brother.
“I’m an Alpha without a pack,” I told him. “Yeah, technically, it’s Constantine, but they don’t know me, and we aren’t there. But I’d be a liar if I told you I hadn’t thought about just running off. F uck all this sh it. Go be a rogue in another small town, far away.
Hell, maybe even a lone wolf.”
“Way less to worry about,” Xander said.
“But no Lanie.”
“No,” he said. “No Zane. No pups. No brother.”
I splashed at the water with a grunt. “Being here at Brightsky is kind of like being in a fever dream.
Everything seems too bright. There’s an edge to it all, surreal, like I have to pinch myself to make sure I’m awake. It’s just so f ucking…easy here. I know it only seems like that, I mean, they’ve got military grade security. Better than military”
“But it does feel easy,” my brother agreed. “Simple, and happy, and like we can just hang out and be with our kids and our Luna and each other, and maybe just…breathe. We don’t have to decide anything for anyone else. We barely have to decide it for ourselves.”
“If we wonder what’s next one of those da mn bells will remind us,” I said with a laugh.
“We have friends here. Dude, don’t laugh at me, but other than Zane, I don’t think I’ve ever really had any.
He’s the only person who treated me like we were equals. Well, until you came along. Kinda f ucking hated, you for it, at first.”
I snorted. “And now?”
‘Still think you’re a pain in the as s, but…I’m glad you’re my brother.”
‘Like you said, we’ll figure all this out. For now, I have to get out of here or I’m going to melt.” I slipped out of the water with a sigh of relief.
Xander handed me a towel. “I don’t want to leave here. Not yet, anyway.”
“Same” I wrapped the towel around my waist, not adding what I knew we both were thinking We probably weren’t going to have a choice Xander–
There was a f ucking street cart selling kebabs. And beer. And churros “Beer,” my brother grunted. “Hot dam n, what is this place?”
“Floor Eighty-Seven is the sh it,” I said to Mason.
We hadn’t even planned to get off here, but when the elevator doors had opened on our way up from the spa, we both stepped out. Hunter was scenting the air, both our bellies growling. I caught a flash of Colt in Mason’s gaze.
“Let’s grab some before some other da mn bell tells us to go somewhere else, Mason said with a grin.
“You’re speaking my language, bro.”
We waited in line behind what I was now learning to recognize as Fae by the slight shimmer of air behind them. They both turned and nodded, totally polite but nothing more. We might as well have been…well, anyone.
aa “That’s what I’m talking about,” I said under my breath when we’d taken our skewers of beef toward an iron cafe table in a small, open arca between two shopfronts. “People here don’t give a f uck who we are.
I mean, I’m sure they know, but they just don’t care.”
“And the food is good,” Mason said, tearing into the meat and chewing messily. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, showing off a gleam of grease.
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