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“Breathe. Our mate is safe. Our pup is in bed, asleep, safe with her mother. We won’t let them be harmed. We’ll figure it out. You will figure it out.”
“I don’t even know what I’m figuring out. That’s the issue. There’s some big plot underway, and I do not understand what it could be.”
“Well, I’m annoyed she didn’t open up to any of us.” I glare at Seb. “What made you good enough?”
Seb shrugs. “She likes me.” His face darkens, and a moody expression covers it. “But she won’t admit it.”
“I don’t think she realises it yet herself,” Topher murmurs.
“So Seb gets this mysterious love from her, and the rest of us are left to fuck ourselves?” I roar to my wolf as my hands shift into claws. My nails on my left hand dig into the sofa.
“She cares for us, too,” Fluffy says calmly. “I’ve felt it. You’ve smelt it. We know that it’s there. She might not admit it, and she might be so angry... but there’s a part of her that can feel the bond and is already letting us worm our way into her heart and earn her love. You have a place in her life, Ben. We do. We’re just as much a part of the bond as the others.”
“So you say. And yet she never wants us.” I clench my jaw before slowly letting out a breath. It doesn’t work.
The shift overtakes me, but rather than ending up on the floor, I’m standing on the sofa. I sit down on my ass and growl when there’s a sigh from Alex.
“She did the best she could,” Alex says. “We can’t be mad at that.”
“You might not be,” Topher says.
“And you are a hypocrite if you are,” Alex counters. He levels Topher with a look that has Fluffy whining. “Our mate did what she could to survive. She was pregnant, terrified, and alone. No matter how fucked up our cousins were, she loved Ryan with her entire soul. We need to accept that and move the fuck on.”
Fluffy growls, and all three of my brother’s look my way. I don’t know what they’re expecting. I can’t shift back, not when I’m so emotionally charged.
“Her past gave us Phoebe,” Seb says.
“And that’s something we’re all eternally grateful for,” Topher continues. He looks over at me in my wolf form before turning back to Alex. “She never lied. Not really.”
“I wish she told us about Ryan,” Alex says. “But it’s not like she truly understood what she was seeing. She was protecting herself in her own way.”
“I made it clear she is never to lie about that again,” Kane says, and I bark out my agreement. I rest my head on my paws and listen in. “That is dangerous, and no mate of mine will keep secrets about her health.”
“And, of course, you got away with it,” Topher mutters, and I laugh. It sounds funny in wolf form, but I don’t care.
“What the fuck do we do now?” Alex asks, looking around the room. “I don’t even know what is going on anymore.”
I shift and cross my legs. “So let’s create a mood board. It’s time to figure out our issues and what we know. Get it all on the same page.”
“Tomorrow,” Seb says.
I frown, and I’m not the only one.
“Maia shouldn’t be alone,” Kane says, and I nod. “Tomorrow, we’ll brainstorm, and then, we’ll get vengeance.”
“Vengeance for who?” I murmur, not sure what the answer is going to be.
Do we want vengeance for Morgan?
For Phoebe?
For Maia?
“For them all,” Topher says.
That works.
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