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“Why isn’t he healing?” Katie asked desperately, speaking my thoughts aloud.
I looked to Zane for an answer, but he shook his head. We’d only recently learned vampires even existed, and we’d been too busy with Alice and then the twins to study up on them.
“He can’t,” Mason said in a choked voice. “Wolf bites are deadly to vampires. There’s no healing, no cure.” He blinked hard a few times as if trying to wash away the scene in front of him.
“So he’s just going to die?” Katie screeched. “That’s it?”
“Yes,” Braden said weakly. “Not immediately. It’s a couple of days of intense pain, and then I’ll start literally losing my mind. After that, I’ll go. It’s slow and torturous, like the worst kind of poison.”
Mason stood up slowly, and like a zombie, he walked to the door and plucked a robe off a h ook, draping it over himself.
us?”
He really was acting like a f ucking zombie.
“Why did you do this?” I demanded, stepping in front of him.
He shook his head, a baffled look on his face.
I planted my hands on his chest and shoved him hard.
“What the f uck were you thinking?” No response. I shoved him again. “What if more vampires come after I shoved him a third time, and he stumbled backward.
“Xander!” Katie cried. “Stop!”
Tears were streaming down her face and her eyes were darting around the room wildly “I don’t think Mason meant to do it,” she said desperately. “There has to be some way to fix this. We have to fix this.”
Go ds, how had everything gotten so f ucked up?
“I don’t know if we can, Katie,” I said solemnly.
“He’s right,” Braden nearly whispered. Everyone froze and looked at him. “Xander is right. If I die, other vampires will come looking for you.”
Zane and I locked eyes. That couldn’t happen under our watch.
“If I die, then you’ve broken the treaty we established after the great wars, and all bets are off,” Braden said ominously.
He locked eyes with me then.
“Your pack and all the packs in this territory will never be the same again.”
Zane–
“Why should we trust anything you say?” I asked the vampire that Katie had called Braden. “Aren’t you the vampire High Elder Gustav warned us about?”
Gustav had visited us and told us a vampire had been spotted in the place we’d found Katie yesterday, but we hadn’t heard anything else about him ever since Alice fell pregnant.
Why all of a sudden had he reappeared? And almost at the exact same time that Katie had arrived?
“Am I already hallucinating or something?” Braden asked weakly. “Why are you two acting like you don’t know who I am?”
He looked from me to Xander while Katie watched us curiously.
“Because we don’t,” Xander said it like Braden was crazy. “Why would we know a vampire?”
Braden coughed out an incredulous laugh. “Maybe because I helped you save your mate’s life?”
What the f uck was he talking about? He really was going crazy already “Alice?” I asked. “Don’t tell me you knew her, too.”
Braden tried to push himself up to sitting, but he groaned and slumped back down. Xander walked over and tugged him up roughly by the shoulders.
“Thanks for that,” Braden said, wincing against the pain. “And no, I’m not talking about Alice.”
He looked from Katie to Xander then back to me. “Why is everyone pretending like Lanie doesn’t exist?”
My heart dropped to my stomach. Katie made a strangled gasping noise. Even Mason seemed to perk up out of his catatonic state at the mention of that name.
“How the f uck do you know our daughter’s name?!” Xander demanded.
“Your daughter?” Braden asked, his face a mask of confusion. Tim talking about your m But before any of us could ask questions, Monroe’s voice carried in am the bou “Alpha, Beta,” he said gruffly. “High Elder Gustav is here to see y you.”
All the color drained from Xander’s face.
Speak of the f ucking devil.
Gustav wanted the vampire problem dealt with, but there had to be Council-regulated ways of doing it.
And I was pretty d those ways.
da mn sure that having Xander’s rogue wolf ba stard brother maul him wasn’t one of “S$ hit, what do we do?” I asked.
“Is everything alright in there?” Monroe called.
“We have to go out there,” Xander said.
“Yes!” I called. “All fine. We’ll be out in a moment.”
Katie looked terrified. “What’s a High Elder? What’s he going to do? Is he going to kill Braden? Will Mason get locked up?”
Katie was spiraling. This wasn’t good.
“We need to go take care of this,” I said. “Can you watch Stella?”
“lll watch her,” Gabriela said.
When did she come in?
I passed Stella off to me..
“Ma, we explain,” Xander began, but she held her hand up. “Go see Gustav. The twins are safe with Mindy. And in the meantime, wash your hands. You stink I cast one last glance around Katie’s mess of a room before Xander and I dashed into the bathroom, scrubbing our hands raw.
“We just ask what Gustav wants and get him out of here as quickly as possible,” Xander said.
He was trying to stay calm, but his voice was frantic Our eyes met in the mirror and we both nodded.
The timing couldn’t be worse. Orion was gone, Gabriela would surely kill us later, and we had a dying vampire stowed upstairs.
Just perfect.
We walked through the splintered doorway where Monroe was waiting, bouncing on the balls of his feet anxiously. I could tell he wanted to know what had happened.
“We had a little disagreement with Mason,” Xander waved his hand toward the door disn working through it.”
Monroe narrowed his eyes for a brief moment before walking us downstairs to meet Gustav room.
When he heard us enter, he spun around, his all-white robes flowing behind him. An angry frown his already heavily lined face…
S hit. He was mad at us, and we hadn’t even spoken to him yet.
“What can we do for you, Gustay?” Xander asked, keeping his distance.
Clearly, he didn’t want Gustav sniffing out any whiffs of vampire that might have floated down from upstairs.
re He clasped his bony hands behind his back.
“Your father sent me here, Xander. He tells me you’ve broken one of the Council’s most important rules…”
Xander–
Goddamn him.
I should’ve known my father wouldn’t leave this place without a fight.
“What rule is that?” I asked carefully.
Zane caught my eye and his face paled slightly.
I knew what he was thinking because I was thinking the same thing. If my father somehow found out we were harboring a dying vampire, then we were dead in the fucking water.
“The rule that says you’re supposed to respect your elders,” he seethed.
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