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“What the hell are you doing here?!” I heard Gabriela’s angry voice before I saw her.
She marched up to our Gabriela, too?
table and I swore the woman’s face when ghost ghost-white. Did she know “I’ll just leave you to it,” the woman mumbled before scurrying off.
“We’re getting coffee,” Mason answered plainly.
Gabriela’s jaw clenched. I looked down at the table to avoid her death glare.
“You’re not supposed to come into town,” Gabriela said in an ice-cold voice. “Especially not with her. We My head snapped up.
“What instructions?” I asked.
Was this why Mason had avoided my question about not leaving the mansion earlier?
His mouth formed a tight line, and Gabriela shook her head at him.
“To make sure you stay in the mansion, Katie. You’re rogues; everyone here can smell it. And they might not welcome you as warmly as we have.”
I held Gabriela’s gaze, but her stony expression didn’t flinch.
“If someone wants to give us s hit for being rogues, then they’ll have to deal with me,” Mason spat.
“You know it’s not that simple,” Gabriela said. “You’re in Council territory. There are consequences to your actions.”
Was she telling the truth? And if we really were at risk of being targeted for being rogues, then why the hell would Mason bring me here?
My stomach flipped. Thank g od I hadn’t brought Stella. Here I was worried about vampires when the Constantine Pack might’ve been our real enemies all along.
Wait… Stella. If Gabriela was here, then….
“Where is Stella?” I suddenly asked.
“She’s with Xander and Zane. They’re watching her and the twins,” Gabriela said. “But she needs you home.”
Awave of guilt crashed over me, making me nauseous.
“Let’s go, Katie,” Mason said, standing up from the table.
“I’ll take her home,” Gabriela said. “We have things to discuss.”
Mason scoffed. “You can’t just f u cking…” He trailed off and took a deep breath.
His face was reddening, a nd his fists were clenched. He obvi ously wanted to fight, but he was doing his best to hold back.
I silently prayed to the go ds that he wouldn’t lose it here. Sh it was already complicated enough without dealing with the consequences of Mason blowing up on Gabriela. There was no way an Alpha like Xander would put up with someone tangling with his mother.
out.
“Fine,” he said. “But you better get her home safe.”
“I’m the Luna for a reason,” Gabriela said. “I know how to take care of people.”
Mason leaned down and gave me a gentle kiss on the forehead. T’ll see you soon,” And then he walked “I’m sorry about all that,” Gabriela said as she led me to one of Xander and Zane’s big black SUVs outside the cafe. “Llust want you and Stella to be safe”
cafe.
I bit my lip and nodded. I didn’t know how else to respond.
“I need to grab something from inside quickly, I’ll be right back,” Gabriela said as she ran back into the Through the window, I could see Gabriela tap the woman from earlier on the shoulder. Her face was twisted up with anger, and the woman looked a little scared when she saw her again.
Lily awakened inside me, scratching around, her ears perking up to hear their conversation, I crept out of the car and walked up to the window of the cafe, pressing myself against the outside wall so they couldn’t see me inside.
“She can’t come around here, it’s too hard,” the woman said, her voice shaking. “What if Selena had been here?”
Selena? Who was Selena?
“Don’t worry,” Gabriela said, “She’ll never leave the mansion again.
Katie–
“Xander, don’t,” Zane warned.
I might not have known too much about how things worked in the Constantine pack, but I did know it was wrong to threaten your Luna.
But when Xander looked at me, his eyes were full of concern, like he was worried for me.
Was he being a mega a sshole to his mom? Yes.
But was he doing it to protect me? It seemed like maybe.
Sh it. If I wanted to stop thinking about Xander and Zane, then they were going to have to stop going all Alpha on my behalf.
“I’m going to pretend like you didn’t just say that,” Gabriela said icily. “Using compulsion on your own mother… despicable.”
I agreed, but the tiniest, most evilly curious part of me wanted to Xander to do it. Then maybe I’d know more about that woman in the cafe, or why she mentioned me and someone named Selena.
I tried to bring it up in the car, but Gabriela had filled every silence with inane questions.
Xander was right. She was hiding something. But I was pretty sure everyone else in the room was, too.
Xander took a deep breath in and stepped back, looking away from his mother.
“I’m not actually going to, and I’m sorry to even threaten it. But I won’t tolerate more lies and secrets.
Ahand fell hard on my shoulder. I flinched, but it was only Mason.
“Are you okay?” he mouthed.
www thing.
I reached for Stella, the could quiet the restlessness in my mind and body.
I nodded at Mason, but I was very much not okay.
When we got back up to our quarters, I put Stella to bed and then climbed in to sleep next to Mason–
without a word.
I knew he wanted to ask me how it had gone with Gabriela, but it was the last thing I felt like talking.
about.
Instead, I went through the checklist of weirdness that seemed to follow me all over Constantine for the last few days I had incessant deja vu that Lily felt, too.
Gabriela told Mason to keep me away from town.
ange town recognized me.
So many secrets, and none of them shared with me.
Nknew there was more I was missing, too, but before I could conjure them all, I’d slipped away into sleep.
I finally got out of bed the next morning when I heard a knock at the door.
Mason had woken me a little while before with a deep kiss that sent a jolt of electricity straight from my lips down to my core.
At that moment, I wondered why I’d ever questioned what I had with Mason, Just his brief touch sent my head spinning and made me desperate to pull him into bed and yank all his clothes off.
hips.
My mind just hadn’t been right yesterday. I’d been stressed and tired, that was all.
I knew Mason would’ve obliged me, too, if Stella hadn’t stirred just as his hands were drifting down my “Do you need me to stay?” he’d asked.
I shook my head and got up, grabbing Stella and feeding her from bed.
Now, walking to the door, my heart rate quickened.
Without Mason here with me, I was afraid to face the rest of the people who lived in the mansion.
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