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“We need to find out if I can truly compel someone against their will, when they’re actively and strongly resisting” She paused, her brow creased with concern. “It seemed like I could do it with Orion, but everything was happening so fast, and then he was killed, so…it’s really hard to say. I need to be able to practice and test my limits, in a safe environment Which this is”
I grumbled again. Of course i trusted her, but that wouldn’t stop me from also wanting to protect her.
“She will be fine with us, you know Malachi greeted Lanie with a kiss to each cheek.
ouldn’t tell if the vampire had been able to read my mind, or if my thoughts were just that clear all over my face. “Then she’ll be fine with me here watching”
Malachis cold gaze flicked past us to the doorway His mouth thinned into a smile. Apparently, your ulher mates feel the hate way it will be quite the party nated but Lake laughed My mates are ascom to be her, grandfather im not scared or ashamed about them being any part of what for learning Fruh beband me. Zan hang arm around my derrything coul Zane laughed er der le men detras to the other of the “hey SRM
Min. Raut ly the dragon wher “Chill, bro. Mason thought to me in a private link.
“He’s allowed to have other friends.”
I rolled my eyes as I turned to my brother and thought in reply, “Don’t act like I’m some kind of control freak.
Mason didn’t reply with words, only raised eyebrows and a smug grin. I frowned, but backed off from calling after Zane as he went to greet the dragon shifter kept close to Lanie, though.
“Greyson.” Malachi said this smoothly, waving him over. “Thank you for coming.”
“Charlotte said there was something special she needed me for?” Greyson gave us all a curious look.
“You should go over there and wait for her,” Lanie said calmly without a hint of tension in her voice. She pointed to a bench on the other side of the room.
Greyson gave her a strange look. “Sure. Okay.”
We watched him go. When he was out of earshot, Malachi said quietly, “That was a good start. But you’re too timid, Lanie. You have to compel him to do something he absolutely otherwise would not wish to do.”
this.
I could sense her nervousness and the tension in her muscles. “Hey. Maybe this isn’t the right time for Does she have to do it right now? Maybe she could-
“Xander, she interrupted. “I’m fine. I promise. It’s just weird. I’m just getting used to it.”
Mason was on my side, though. “She doesn’t have to do this at all. Ever. Just because you think she needs to be able to do some weird vamp s hit doesn’t mean she actually has to.”
Malachi rolled his eyes and shook his head. “Mason, your reluctance is understandable, and I can sense your great love and concern for my granddaughter.
But you need to back away with that attitude.”
Mason took a step back, then another. He scowled.
“Get the f uck out of my head!”
“See? Malachi turned to Lanie with a small grin ‘It can be as subtle as that Now you go on. Give it a try!
Mason–
“Greyson, you should kiss Charlotte to show her how happy you are to see her, Lanie called out in a clear voice that rang through the big space.
Malachi laughed softly under his breath. “He’d already want to do that. She must try something a little less obvious.
“I’m not sure I like this,” I thought to my brother and our Beta. “What if something goes wrong? It doesn’t feel right for her to be compelling people. Especially since, apparently, that dude doesn’t know he’s part of an experiment.”
“Are you sure you’re not just upset because she’s our Luna and you think only Alphas should be able to use their powers to compel? She’s already shown that she’s different. More than you might expect her to be,”
Zane replied calmly.
“What the f uck does that have to do with anything?”
Xander thought, sounding surprised and a little ticked off. ‘What’s up with the attitude lately?”
Lanie shot a narrow-eyed glance at her grandfather.
She turned her attention back to the other side of the room. “Greyson, take a walk around the room to grab me a water, would you?”
The dragon shifter looked up, a faint look of surprise on his face, but he nodded and did so. He took the long way around, a route that made no sense…unless Lanie was compelling him.
“Never mind,” Zane thought to Xander. “Obviously, I wouldn’t have any idea what it’s like to be able to compel someone, since I’m just a Beta.”
“You two, work your shi t out at home. This feels wrong,” I insisted through the link. “Pay attention to what’s going on in here. I have a bad feeling that it could go wrong at any minute. We have to be ready to get Lanie the f uck out of here.”
I could see Xander and Zane sharing a look, but only Xander nodded in my direction. Zane was staring at the dragon shifter with an intent expression I couldn’t get a read on his feelings, but I also couldn’t tell if it was because he was shielding, or I was too focused on Lanie’s conversation with Greyson.
She took the bottle of water he handed her and looked at it. “Open it for me”
This definitely didn’t sound like our Luna Cold Fierce She didn’t even say “please” It was clear she was giving him a command, not a request, and it was f ucking weird to watch him simply obey Greyson opened the bottle, casting a glance over his shoulder at Charlotte, who’d left the other side of the room to join us. I could tell something wasn’t sitting right with Greyson, but he must not have been feeling too She didn’t say “thank-you” and every alarm bell started ringing in my head. She was compelling him She had to be.
“It’s too hard to tell if she’s compelling him or he’s just compliant. Being nice and polite, Xander complained in our heads.
“He is being nice. He’s like that. He enjoys service,”
Zane told us both through the link. “It could be possible he’s just doing what she asks because of that.
It doesn’t mean that she’s forcing him to do it.
“No. It’s more than being polite. I feel it. Can’t you?” I thought to them both.
There was a heavy sensation in the air. Kind of an electrical hum or buzz. It tingled on the back of my neck and made the hairs rise. Bumps pric kled on my arms.
F uck, even my c ock was kind of getting hard from it, even though I wasn’t at all aroused.
Xander and Zane were shifting their weight from foot to foot. Restless. It was happening to them, too.
“Stop her,” I demanded of Malachi, who just shrugged. “If you won’t, I will.”
When I took a step forward, the Ancient raised a hand and crooked his fingers at me. F uck. I was stuck in place, unable to move. I tried to call out to Lanie, but I was as m uffled as if he’d stuffed a gag in my mouth.
Xander and Zane looked as stuck as was.
“You need to let your Luna find her own way, Malachi murmured. “You can fight me. Perhaps even get free, though it will cause you agonies you won’t soon recover from. But more than that…”
Lanie looked over at the three of us. Her eyes were blazing with a light unlike any I’d ever seen from her before.
“She will not forgive your interference,” Malachi finished.
I stopped fighting him.
All I could do was watch the woman I loved doing something I couldn’t believe she was capable of.
“Greyson Tell me what dragons love more than treasure.” Lanie’s voice was calm and commanding.
“Fire, Greyson said in a strange monotone.
Dragons love fire.”
Gabriela–
Lenora’s soft words chimed in my mind like bells as I made my way back to our quarters She’d been so apologetic, so concerned I would be upset, but the truth was, I’d had som before we came to Brightsky. And wasn’t it always better to confront your concerns?
I’d spent the morning in the communal library, trying to research, but I’d been able to find very little should have met with Lenora again today to ask more questions.
Maybe if I’d listened to my wolf’s unease about my husband and his long, unexplained absences, I’d have learned long ago that Orion had been unfaithful. So much might have been different, if only I’d trusted myself instead of shoving any fears deep down.
It wouldn’t have to be an angry confrontation or anything like that. I liked Lanie and always had, and it was also clear that she was a much better mate for my son than Alice could ever have been.
But what if Lanie had compelled Xander into loving her?
What if, what if, what if.
I hurried along the corridors without paying much attention to where I was going, heading toward the children’s wing instead of home. The urge to get back to my babies was so strong it felt like an invisible fist. yanking me step by step back along the hallways.
Those little ones needed my protection. I could feel it in every fiber of my being.
I’d texted my son about half an hour ago, but so far, Xander hadn’t answered me. Visions filled my head of him bl oody, injured…
or worse. Yes, I knew it was more likely he was in bed with his mates, but at the same time, my mother’s instinct had kicked in.
Moon Goddess, I prayed. Guide me. Give me strength.
Help me sift out the dangers.
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