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“We’ve been through this. I am not sociopathic,” I protest, ignoring his humour. “I just don’t like people. That’s normal.”
“We are pack animals, Seb. You’re weird,” Kane replies. “We like people. We thrive around people. You’re just missing a soul.”
“Then clearly you’re dysfunctional, too,” I say with a smirk. Maia eyes the action, but doesn’t say anything. “Because why else would you be paired with me?”
“You’re talking with him now, aren’t you?”
I nod. “Yes.”
“Can you elaborate a little more?” Maia asks softly. “If it’s hard for you, then don’t. I just… I don’t want to feel like we’re complete strangers.”
“Kane and I talk a lot.” I can give her that. I can give her anything she needs. “He’s part of me, but more than that, Kane is my best friend. We’re one, but we’re also not.”
She smiles. “Will it be like that for Phoebe?”
“Yes.”
She nods, and a contemplative expression fills her face as she looks at her daughter. There’s a peaceful aura surrounding her, a calmness that hasn’t been seen for more than a fleeting moment in the time I’ve known her. I like it.
A lot.
“Could you bring her bouncer upstairs, please?” Maia asks, breaking our calm quiet. “I want to take that offered shower and want to settle her in the bathroom with me.”
I frown and shake my head.
“No, you won’t bring it up for me, or no, I can’t shower?” Maia’s tone has turned frosty, and I know I’m treading on thin ice.
“Be honest with our mate. Tell her. Tell her the truth.”
“You can shower.” My heart fractures, and I can feel my legs quivering as they struggle to hold me up.
“Tell her!” Kane roars in my head, and I know if he were a person, he’d be shoving me forward.
“So I need to get the bouncer myself?” She phrases it like a question before shrugging. “Fine. Could you scoot over so I can get off the bed?”
I shake my head.
“Seb, I am seriously going to strangle you. Communicate. Use more than one word. Explain yourself.”
But how the fuck do I tell her that she can’t leave my sight? How do I plead with her to always be in front of me?
How do I tell the woman who is only here by an alpha command that she’s not even allowed to go shower with Phoebe without me there?
I can’t.
“For fuck’s sake,” Kane mutters.
He shoves me from the fore-consciousness and gives our mate a dazzling smile. “Please, don’t leave mate alone,” Kane pleads. “I’m sad and lonely. I will miss my mate. Will miss Phoebe.”
“You’ll miss us?” she says, sounding amused, and I know for a fine fact I couldn’t get away with this like he could.
“Miss mate.” He nods, pouting at her. “Let me watch Phoebe?”
“I’ve never… you were the first person outside me or the medical staff to hold her,” Maia reveals, and I flinch.
Fuck.
Kane’s mood drops, and I instantly push forward to take back control. He howls in my mind, rages at the injustice our baby has suffered. Maia’s none the wiser, but I am.
