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“If they do, we’ll keep you away from them.”
She lets out a breath. “I don’t think I could lie to them.”
I don’t think she could, either. We weren’t wrong to end him for what he did to her, but perhaps our actions afterwards were hasty. Pack law had us covered. Coven laws can be trickier, but dark arts practitioners are extremely dangerous. Even if we dealt with it badly, no one else in the same situation would have done much different.
“I promise, we’ll keep you safe.” I reach for the phone, and she pulls it back.
“My mom made me promise to keep it on. She was mad that I didn’t answer it sooner.”
“I’ll keep an eye on it. You need to rest.”
“I’m fine,” she mutters, crossing her arms and hiding the phone from sight.
“I bet it needs charged. Charger’s on my side of the bed.”
She blinks and uncrosses her arms, passing me the phone. “My mom doesn’t know I’m a hybrid. She doesn’t know I have mates, and she thinks I’m a warlock’s apprentice.”
Rachel doesn’t speak very fondly of her family, so I’m not really surprised that she hasn’t told them anything about what’s happened since she got to Wolf Creek. I didn’t think it bothered her, but she seems upset now that she’s talking about it.
“Well, I don’t know much about magic, but I’m willing to get a cape and act like a warlock if your mother ever decides to come for a visit.”
She snorts and puts a hand over her mouth, stifling laughter.
I grin at her. “Carter and Silas can shift forms and you can tell her they’re our familiars.”
“Stop,” she gasps, wheezing through a giggle fit as she falls back onto the bed.
I move around the bed and plug in her phone while she imagines the ridiculous scenario that’s never going to happen. She lets out a fresh burst of laughter over it while I set her cell down on the nightstand. Then she wipes at the corners of her eyes and turns to me.
“Never stop making ridiculous suggestions,” she tells me, moving in closer.
“As long as you never stop laughing at them.”
I wrap my arms around her, and she turns so her back is against my front, snuggling in close.
My cock twitches a little being this close to my mate, but we’re both tired and she needs softer comforts while she gets past the shock of what she just learned.
I breathe in deep, enjoying the way she’s draped in my scent. She’s wearing my shirt tonight, and I love it when she does that. It drives me crazy when she wears something that belongs to Silas, which she insists on often. I’ve gotten more used to smelling my pack brothers on her, but the primal desire that my scent marks her as mine is hard to ignore.
Sharing is complicated, but I wouldn’t change what we have for anything. The nights we get to spend together alone make it worth it a million times over. I can’t say I hate the nights when our sleeping arrangement is a little more cramped, either. We’re a pack, and all of it feels right.
We’ll get through this together. Whatever happens, we’ve got each other.
Chapter Twenty-Three
Rachel
Sleepisthelastthing I thought I needed, but Adrian knew better when he found me on the couch staring into space. When I wake up, the call from my mother feels like a distant memory. It’s not in the front of my mind, taking up all the space.
I stretch a little in my Alpha’s embrace, letting him know I’m awake and trying to build up the energy to move from the bed at the same time.
“Is it still Christmas Eve?” I ask, wondering how much time has actually passed since he brought me back to bed. It’s impossible to tell with the drapes closed, and no clock nearby to look at.
“Mm hm,” he utters, which tells me he’s barely awake.
“What time is it?” I ask, wondering if he’s tired enough to pay any attention if I turn and reach over him to grab my phone from his nightstand.
“Never mind what time it is,” he murmurs, hugging me closer. “Rest.”
