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“But you u can’t turn off a mate bond like that,” I argued. “We loved you, and you left us.
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Her eyebrows shot up to her forehead. “Oh, that’s rich,” she whisper-yelled. “Have you forgotten that you didn’t choose me? You want me now that Alice is dead and no longer an option.”
She had no idea what the f uck went on with Alice. She wasn’t there.
Mason, My jaw clenched almost as hard as my fists.
“Don’t argue with her,” Zane warned. “It won’t get you anywhere.”
“She’s saying a bunch of b ullsh it,” I growled. “I won’t take that.”
“Alice fooled us both,” Zane jumped in, attempting to calm me down. “If we’d been able to see beyond her, we would’ve realized immediately that it was you. It was always you.”
Her expression seemed to soften slightly.
“But I’m a hybrid,” she said. “Aren’t you worried that that puts you and the twins in danger?”
“No better place for a hybrid to hide out than in the arms of an Alpha and his Beta,” I said. “We can protect you like no one else can.”
Worry lines creased her forehead. She was considering it, I could tell.
“Your mother doesn’t seem to agree, Xander,” she said. So much for that. “She wants me to go while things with the Council blow over at the mansion.”
” F uck what my mother said,” I growled. “This family should stay together.”
“Careful there, Xander,” Zane warned. “Remember whose babies you’re rocking to sleep every night.”
Shi t. It was only a matter of time before Mason put two and two together with the twins and the fact they. might be his. At least if he left with Lanie, he’d be away from them for a while.
“I’m going Xander,” she said assuredly. “I’m done arguing about it. I’m leaving tomorrow, and you’re not coming with me.”
Lanie–
I packed mine and Stella’s bags as slowly as possible, waiting for Mason to show up and help me or tell me he’d decided to join.
Gabriela had thought it best if we left the next morning since she, Xander, and Zane all needed to get back to the mansion to avoid suspicion. They’d already been gone more than a day.
I finally walked outside, taking my time throwing the bags in the car and buckling Stella into her car seat.
I cast my eyes around for any sign of Mason, but there was nothing. I bit my tongue to keep tears from welling in my eyes. I could do this alone. I didn’t need him or anyone else.
But then I heard a creak on the cabin steps, and I spun around, relief already washing over me.
Only it wasn’t Mason, it was Zane.
He ran down the stairs and straight up to me.
“Are you sure you don’t want me to come with you, Lanie?” he asked softly. “Xander will be fine alone for al few days.”
He reached out and squeezed my shoulder and a bolt of electricity spider-webbed out from where he’d touched me.
“We want to start over fresh, forget all the sh it that happened before the spell,” he said.
Impossible. You don’t forget the kind of rejection they made me feel.
“I just don’t want you to go alone,” Zane said.
“Oh, she won’t be alone,” Mason said as he swept out of the front door. “I hope there’s still room for me.”
I smiled brightly in spite of myself. Mason showing up was a da mn dream come true.
“Of course there is,” I said.
He shot me the same winning smile that had won me over the first time we met. “Good,” he said.
And then he kissed me. Slowly and gently. And right in front of Zane.
I glanced at him as we broke apart. I could swear his eyes flashed red. But when I looked again, they were only full of sadness.
He e stomped back into the house without another word.
Lily scratched at my insides. She was telling me to go to Zane and comfort him, but I fought against it hard. Mason always put me first when Xander and Zane didn’t. I needed to do the same for him.
It was also tucked away in the woods, but a much more modest bungalow than the or their hunting cabin.
As soon as it came into view, my vision swam with tears. I hadn’t been there since right before the mating ceremony, what felt like a million years ago.
I’d seen my mother briefly, but my heart nearly cracked in half when I realized it had been more than half a year since I’d seen my sister.
As soon as we got out of the car, she sprinted up to me, throwing her arms around me, and covering me with her blanket of hair that was just a little brighter red than mine.
“Selena,” I whispered, breathing in her familiarly comforting scent, a scent that reminded me of ski pping stones in a pond, gossiping instead of sleeping, and bonds that can’t be broken.
“I’ve missed you so much,” I said as I pulled away from her. I took in her face, the crowded dusting of freckles across her nose that matched our mothers. She was only seventeen, a year out from being of age, but she looked so much older than the last time I’d seen her. On closer look, she seemed tired, her face a little sunken.
“I’ve missed you, too,” she said thickly. She smiled, but it didn’t quite reach her eyes. “Go ds, is this Stella?” she squealed, running toward Mason, who was holding her While they introduced themselves, I looked to the house and saw my mother standing in the doorway, a wistful expression on her face.
too?
“My girls, back together again,” she said. Was limagining it, or did she look more exhausted than usual, “Mama,” I said, wrapping her in a tight hug. “This is Mason.”
I gestured toward him and my mother gave him a small wave as he approached.
Selena slipped through the front door, now holding Stella. The sight of them together made my heart swell.
“Be careful with her Selena, she’s still so small,” my mother said Selena’s nose wrinkled. “F uck off,” she muttered, stomping into the living room and plopping down onto the couch with Stella.
I gasped at her response. It was so unlike her to be rude to our mother.
“What the hell has gotten into her?” I asked. Selena had always been a quiet, goody-two-shoes type. I used to make fun of her for it.
“Honestly,” my mother said, leaning in closer. “I’m worried for her safety. I think she’s seeing someone, I think they might be hurting her.”
and Xander–
Zane and I sat on the steps of the cabin, waiting for her to return.
We hadn’t spoken to her since we’d awoken late last night, dazed and with the sudden realization that the existence of our mate had been wiped clean from our minds by my own f ucking mother.
She owed us an explanation along with about a million apologies, and we weren’t going back to the mansion until we got them.
As soon as the car pulled up to the drive, we stood, fists trembling at our sides.
“She’s your mother, don’t do anything you’re going to regret,” was the only warning Zane gave me.
Normally, he would’ve talked me down from confronting her in the first place, but he was just as furious as I was.
Lying to us was one thing, but manipulating our memories? That was psychotic.
“know you have a lot of questions,” my mother said wearily as she walked up to the cabin. “But we can talk once we’re back at the mansion. We’ve already been gone too long.”
“We’ll talk now,” I snarled. “Or I’ll make you talk.”
She sighed and rubbed her temples. “Don’t lose it again, Xander,” she said. “I’m sure the whole pack felt it when you and Zane wolfed out on Braden last night. “Do that again, and the Council will have your heads for breakfast”
“We’re not talking about the f u cking Council,” I yelled, swinging my fist at the wooden beam next to me and splintering it like a toothpick.
I could feel Zane vibrating with anger beside me, his face growing redder by the second. He wasn’t the kind to act out, but he was more furious than I’d ever seen him.
My mother jumped back, her eyes widening. A sick sense of satisfaction ripped through me. Good. She should be scared.
“Why did you do it?” Zane asked, his voice ice cold. “Why did you curse us?”
We took one step down, slowly advancing on my mother.
She held up her hands and stepped back.
only way i it “It was Lanie’s decision to go through with the spell, she said. “Roping you into it was the only could work. You’d never stop trying to get her back otherwise.”
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