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If she got her memories back, would she forget about me?
Xander–
“What the f uck are we supposed to do now?” I exploded as soon as I walked into the room.
come all the way here for a cure that would kill the woman Zane and I were undeniably falling for when we could’ve just let Mason take the fall.
And to make matters worse, Katie was a f ucking hybrid, and from what Rhiannon said, it sounded like that put her in more danger than Braden drinking her blood.
“Do you think Rhiannon would let us leave Braden here in her care?” Zane asked. “We could pay her off to burn the body and get rid of the evidence once the poison takes hold.”
My mother shook her head vigorously. “She would never go for that. She’s already in hiding, she won’t risk letting someone trace a vampire’s death back to her.”
But there was more to it. There was some reason why my mother wanted Braden alive, probably the same reason she was friends with witches like Rhiannon. As soon as we got this s hit figured out, I intended find out what that reason was.
But Zane was being way too soft with his solutions. We’d bent over backward trying to find a cure for a vampire we didn’t know from Adam and trying to clear Mason’s name Sure, he was my brother, but he wasn’t a part of my pack, and I still had no f ucking clue if I could really trust him, or if he was plotting against me as we spoke. Especially after he’d caught us with Katie in the showers.
I’d already gotten my father out of the way; it was better if I did the same with Mason and made him deal with his own problems.
“Why can’t we just drop Mason and Braden in rogue territory and let him and the other rogues deal with the consequences?” I asked irritatedly Zane’s head snapped up to look at me “I thought we let that go,” he said.
“You might’ve, but I didn’t,” I growled.
I hadn’t argued back at the house because I thought my mother was trying to protect me from more with the Council. But now that we were away from the mansion, how would they ever know that Zane or I had anything to do with this?
“What if other vampires get wind of what’s happened to Braden?” Zane asked aloud.
I shot him a vicious look. He was testing my patience right now by questioning my plan.
“Drop it, Zane,” I warned.
Alow growl rumbled in my chest.
“Listen to me, Xander,” my mother said. Her expression had turned darker and more foreboding. “If Braden’s coven finds out about his death, they will likely attack the rogue wolves. Do you really want that blood on your hands?”
Rogue wolves weren’t my responsibility, but the truth was, I didn’t.
I thought back to our brief time in Stillwood, of how kind and calm everyone had been there. I glanced at Zane, and his face was twisted up in a kind of horror, He must’ve been thinking the same thing.
I wasn’t the Alpha of the rogues, but I also wasn’t a killer. It would be evil to sic a coven of vampires on innocent shifters.
“No,” I said, shaking my head. “I don’t want any shifters to die because of Mason’s st upid mistake.”
“Good,” my mother said. “Because if vampires attack any shifters, even rogues, then the Great Wars treaty is broken, and all hell could break loose.”
My mouth went dry. That’s just what we f ucking needed, a vampire invasion.
Zane and I were already on thin ice with the Council, and if more vampires started flooding our we’d be stripped of our titles faster than we could blink.
territories, “It’s best if Mason agrees to hand himself into the Council,” my mother said, though she seemed sad to admit it. “They’ll figure out a way to handle things with Braden without breaking the treaty.”
“But what if he refuses?” Zanea asked.
“If he won’t agree to it, then we make him,” I said simply. “He’ll do it if he knows that that’s the only way to protect his…Katie,”
I’d almost said “his mate,” but ever since we’d gotten closer to Katie, it felt harder and harder to call her that. It didn’t seem right.
“So that’s settled,” Zane said, breathing out a deep sigh. “Now what the f uck do we do but this whole hybrid situation?”
My mother’s eyes suddenly widened. “Nothing,” she said abruptly. “Katie will keep that herself to protect Stella. As long as the spell holds and no one else finds out, everything will her back to Stillwood tomorrow, and she can resume her life.”
Like hell she would. Katie was coming back to the mansion with us one way or another, but argument for tomorrow.
My mother held our gazes for one long moment before sweeping out of the room.
“What the hell is up with her?” Zane asked, I’d asked the same question way too many times lately.
to There was something she didn’t want any of us to know, something she was protecting by keeping us an Katie in the dark…but was it for selfish reasons like my father, or did she think she was doing us all a favor?
Katie–
I walked to my room in a daze.
I didn’t want to stay at Rhiannon’s tonight. I wanted to go to someplace safer, someplace that felt more like home.
Stella clearly agreed. She’d been fussing almost nonstop since we’d gotten there, and nothing I tried would calm her down.
I could relate, though. If Stella wasn’t in my arms, I probably would’ve already broken down completely.
Hours ago, I was angry with Mason for letting his emotions get the better of him and putting us all in this position, but now I was weirdly grateful for it.
If he hadn’t bitten Braden, would I have ever found out who and what I really am?
“lm a vampire,” I said again to myself. I’d repeated it over and over, almost not believing it. What the hell did that even mean?
Would I become an outcast? Would I be hunted like the others? Would Mason hate me now?
The very idea of it made my eyes fill with tears.
Mason attacked Braden because he thought he was an enemy who would hurt me. but turned out we were a lot more alike than I ever would’ve thought. Was that why Braden and I knew each other before? Did he know this whole time that I was a hybrid?
Stella let out another great wail, and my heart panged. The tears welling in my eyes spilled over.
I hated seeing her so distressed like this.
I rocked her back and forth, cooing to her, “It’s okay, my love. There’s nothing to be afr shook, and she didn’t calm at all. She must’ve known I didn’t believe the words I was sayin Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and Mason slipped inside without waiting fo “Let me take her,” he said, holding out his hands for Stella, “I can’t imagine what you mu now. I’m sure you could use a break.”
I openly wept as I passed Stella off to Mason. Of course, he had come to help me, and I didn’t to ask.
He held Stella with one hand and pulled me into him with the other.
But my voice I was scared you’d feel differently about me now,” I said in a shaky voice. “You hated Braden as soon you knew what he was. I was worried the same thing might happen to me.”
He pulled back and looked me in the eyes. They were full of hurt and sympathy and what seemed like love, too.
“I could never Mason said. “I acted rashly when I bit Braden. I don’t think he deserved that.”
He leaned down and kissed my forehead. My eyes fluttered closed.
“And more importantly,” he said softly, “It doesn’t change how I feel about you. Not even for a second, If anything, it just makes me want to protect you and Stella even more.”
I blinked up at him. There he was again, right there when I needed him most, saying all the right things.
“Thank you,” I said tearfully.
He smiled softly. “T’ll put Stella down,” he said. She’d already quieted in his arms, her favorite place to be. “You go take a hot shower and try not to think about all this s hit for a minute.”
I looked him up and down. His long hair tousled perfectly, his chiseled face arranged in a gentle expression, his big arms flexing as he held my baby… He looked perfect. I bit my lip.
-Will you join me in there when you’re done?” I asked Mason’s face morphed from surprise to arousal. “I’ll do anything you want,” he said, his voice a low rumble.
I stepped into the bathroom and turned the water as hot as I could stand it, letting the steam wrap itself around me as I peeled off my clothes piece by piece.
“I do love you, Katie.” I thought about Mason’s words as I stepped inside, letting the water run over me.
I suddenly felt desperate to have him here with me, to have his hands all over me. My insides tightened and my core pulsed. I let my hand travel down between my legs, imagining my touch was his.
As if I’d conjured him, the door opened and Mason’s silhouette appeared in front of the glass shower door.
He stepped inside, and without a word, his lips claimed mine, not bothering to be gentle. His hands were all over me, his hard c ock pressed into my aching belly.
“Mason, wait,” I said, pulling back. “I have something to tell you first…”
away.
Mason–
“What is it?” I asked her, my heart pounding wildly.
Any ny moment, I was worried she’d decide I was a monster for what I’d done to Braden, and she’d push me But the look on her face didn’t say she was sad or afraid. She looked sure, excited even.
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