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I had to stop myself from rolling my eyes as he ordered even more food, but it got the waitress to focus on taking our order rather than ogling us.
too.
“Anyway, you’re treating,” he said with another grin, for me this time. “And I’m hungry I leaned back against the booth. “It’s going to be hard to talk with food in our mouths.”
“I’ll be eating. You’ll be the one talking.” He lifted his glass toward me again. “T’ll need a few more of these, “lm not even sure where to start.”
“How about with what the f uck did you mean by an ancient vampire killed Orion-f ucking-Constantine?” Asher lost the smile and leaned across the table, pitching his voice low. It still slapped at me, each word sharp as a razor.
“I guess that’s a good place.” I tried to sound light, but Asher wasn’t having it.
His lip curled. “The f uck were you doing around an ancient vamp to begin with?”
“You’re go going to hate this answer, but I can’t really tell you.” I braced myself for his fury, but Asher only let out a low growl of laughter.
He shook his head and leaned back in his seat. “Of course you f ucking can’t. You’re so full of secrets!
can smell them oozing out your pores.”
“Look, there are things I shouldn’t even know for my own safety, and there’s no way I’m going to put you any danger because of it. And I will not risk my family, either,” I told him in the same growling tone he’d given me in “Who’s the vamp?”
I hesitated but answered reluctantly. “Name’s Malachi.”
“No, I mean….who is he? Why the f uck was he able to get to Orion in the first place, and why would he kill him?” Asher sat upright with a sick expression twisting his features. “S hit F uck. The Treaty’s been broken?”
“I mean, the Treaty said that we wouldn’t kill each other, so yeah” I took a long pull off my beer, wishing there was an easier way for this conversation to happen. There was too much I still didn’t know…and too much Asher was quiet for a long few seconds. He drained his glass and opened his mouth to speak, but the waitress arrived with the platters of food. She put them on the table, chattering away and flirting with him-or trying to. But unlike before, this time, Asher didn’t give her a charming smile.
His face had gone dark. His teeth gleamed, too sharp. His eyes flashed, setting her back a few steps. He flicked a hand at her in a gesture more authoritative than I’d ever seen him make.
“Go. We don’t need anything else from you. Do not come back,” he added without looking at h burned into mine. “My friend and I need to be left the f uck alone. You got that?”
“Yeah, sure,” she mumbled and scurried away.
“If the Treaty has been broken, why hasn’t anyone heard about it?” he asked finally.
her. His gaze I rubbed at the space between my eyes as a pulse came in from Lanie. She was checking in on me, and that should’ve made me feel good, but it only reminded me that the man across from me had once been interested in her. It reminded me that she and I were connected in ways I didn’t understand and would not be able to explain, I answered her quickly and then put up a shield.
When I focused back on Asher, he was staring with narrowed eyes.
“I don’t know why nothing’s happened about the Treaty. That’s the truth, I vow to the Moon,” I told him.
He stared in silence, and the seconds ticked on between us. I wasn’t going to say anything first. Asher needed to guide this conversation. He deserved to get what he needed from me.
I only hoped I’d be able to give it to him.
“She was linking to you, huh? A minute ago.”
“She’s my mate,” I said solidly, without flinching or any note of apology in my tone. If we were going to fight about this, best to get it out of the way right off the bat. My relationship with Lanie was the one thing I was never going to be sorry about.
you.”
“She should’ve been our mate,” Asher said. “Tell me that can’t still happen. I need to hear it straight from “Lanie can’t be our mate, Asher. I’ve accepted Zane as my Beta.”
Lanie–
My gentle m ental inquiry out to Xander and Zane told me they were still gleefully running as their wolves.
They’d be gone for a while, which was good, because no matter how fast my fingers flew over the keyboard, I was having a hard time getting to where I needed to be.
The dark web wasn’t as easy to navigate as the regular internet.
The back door ways I’d found before when I was researching had since been mostly shut down, and the ones that weren’t led me all over to everywhere but where I wanted to go. Every rabbit hole I could imagine prompted me to dive into it while I searched with as many different questions as I could.
Finally, frustrated to the point of tears, I shut my laptop lid and pressed my fingertips against my eyes.
I took a few deep breaths.
I knew it wasn’t as easy as simply opening up a browser and navigating to a handy website that would let me download a cheerful brochure outlining all the ways hybrids were different. Even so, I couldn’t stop the simmering resentment getting ready to boil over as each link I clicked took me to junky sites, outdated message boards or, worst of all, gross porn.
I sent up a silent plea to the Moon Goddess for guidance.
Images formed and swirled in my mind as I did my best to tap into my Luna powers. They still seemed s distant sometimes. Like I could sense how to call on them, but they weren’t quite as responsive as I wanted them to be.
I closed my eyes and tried hard to let the light of the Moon Goddess fill me. After what felt like an hour, I opened them.
Only four minutes had passed.
Now I was even more frustrated. I got up to pace around the room. It had been so easy before! I’d reached out to the Goddess, not really even knowing what, exactly, I was doing, and she’d answered by filling me with.
confidence. This time, I got nothing.
I tried again.
I added words. “Oh, Moon Goddess, I beseech you to give me a sign of what I should be doing to get the information I’m seeking. Please fill me with your wisdom and the confidence to know what I’m doing.”
I settled myself again at the keyboard and waited with my fingers poised to type away. Slowly, slowly, I tapped out one word into the browser window. Then another. It wasn’t making much sense, and it wasn’t the search I wanted to make, but somehow it got me to something that looked right. Or close to right, anyway, and that was a start.
Relief washed over me. For a few minutes, it had really felt like the Moon Goddess had abandoned me.
access her strength. She guided me to downloading a new browser and I also figured out how to mask my location.
I’d never thought much about using computers before, but now it was like I’d spent my entire life learning how to hack into sites and message boards I would never have known existed a few months ago.
This stopped me. My heart raced, and my throat closed. A few months ago, I hadn’t had to know anything. like this. Now, whatever I could find out might save my daughter’s life.
And mine.
Quickly, I typed in another search string that I hoped would lead me to more information about hybrids. My precious Stella was growing so much faster than we could ever have expected. I wanted to be sure there wasn’t anything wrong with her.
“C’mon,” I muttered as I typed a little faster but got stalled by a site that was clearly designed as a decoy. “Someone out there has to know something.”
Asurge of Alpha energy tickled the edges of my concentration. Xander? Or Mason?
I couldn’t be sure, only that whoever it was, he was getting a little agitated.
Probably Mason.
Not thinking much about it, I sent out a pulse of Luna energy. He’d been pretty clear earlier that he didn’t want me bothering him, and honestly, right now, I was just trying to get through as much of this dark web information as I could find before any of my mates got home.
I wasn’t worried that they’d be angry about it. I knew they wanted to find out as much as I did. B knew how protective all of them could be, and the last thing I needed was three di cks swinging arou in my way.
The Goddess was guiding me. She was showing me. And I would be the one to solve this puzzle… could get in just a little deeper.
Mason–
“You didn’t even have to tell me that. I saw it written all over your face,” Asher said. “F uck, I could practically smell him all over you.
His sneer revealed sharp teeth he used to tear into a wing, devouring it in seconds. He tossed the bones onto a plate and scrubbed at his finger’s with a napkin while I watched, saying nothing.
“Just tell me that wasn’t the plan all along.” Asher spat out finally.
I sighed. “Of course it wasn’t. It just…happened.”
He grimaced. “Not sure how s hit like that can just ‘happen, but whatever.”
There wasn’t a whole lot I could say to make any of this better, but I was d amn sure going to try. Asher had been my best friend, my right-hand man, for years. I hated that he looked at me now like I’d let him down…
I hated knowing that I had.
“You know the ways of the Moon are not always clear,” I said in a low voice. “If this is what the Goddess, wants for me, Asher, I can’t go against that.”
He narrowed his eyes and then hung his head. His shoulders lifted and dropped in a heavy sigh.
“It just feels I feels like you didn’t you didn’t even f ucking try, man, You went off and left me here, not a f ucking word. Next thing I know, you’re back with Lanie as your mate, but you’re best buds with your brother. The one you swore end.”
Asher lifted his head.
“Tell me the truth, man. This is all some kind of long game, right? You’re getting close to Xander Constantine because you’re working our plan, aren’t you? In the end, you’re really going rip him to shreds.”
Zane–
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