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“If they can relate to you, maybe they wouldn’t be so up in arms about the fact that you don’t know how to stop these Rogues,” Rune pointed out.
I scowled at him. “I’ll figure it out.”
Rune didn’t say anything, waiting for me to speak, and I did. I filled the silence.
“I’m not a family man, Rune. I’m not someone who lays down his life for someone because I care so much that I’d rather die than live without them. I don’t get attached, I don’t get emotional, and I don’t get involved. It just ends badly.”
“The pack isn’t out to hurt you,” Rune said. “They want to be there for you, and they want you to be there for them. It’s really that simple.”
It wasn’t that simple, though. I had to keep my pack members at a distance to keep them safe. And I would keep them safe, give them a home, and be the alpha they needed.
When I didn’t answer Rune, he stood.
“Where do you want me to take them?”
“Somewhere public so it stays safe, and somewhere Emmie can have fun. A park or something. Try keeping it between the humans so there’s no room for error.”
Rune nodded and left my office without fighting me, without driving me up the wall the way his identical twin did.
I let out a breath when he was gone, walking back to my chair. I sagged into it, letting myself drop the hard exterior.
I pinched the bridge of my nose between my thumb and forefinger.
The pack was unhappy.
One of my betas was unhappy.
I had no idea who was after me.
The only people who were a point of light in my life right now were Danna and Emmie.
Thinking about them filled me with warmth. I didn’t know what was going on between me and Danna. When we’d been together, something had happened. Something thatshouldn’thave happened.
The mate bond.
She hadn’t known what it was she felt, because she was human, and magic wasn’t her forte.
That was what fucked me up. She washuman. How could the mate bond be forged between us? That didn’t make any sense—our other halves, our significant others, our fated mates had to be shifters, according to the legend. Not only according to legend, according to our genetic makeup, too.
I thought about Colter and Liv, the shifter and the angel who were fated. It was the only couple I knew about that weren’t both shifters, and they were together.
I’d heard of other enchanted beings getting together and finding their bond, too.
They’d all had one thing in common, though; they’d had magic.
Danna didn’t have any magic to speak of. The only reason Emmie had magic was thanks to me.
My mind drifted to the little girl.
Emmie did something different to me. I didn’t like dropping my guard when I was around Danna because if I did, I would fall for her so fucking hard, I would never recover if anything happened, but Emmie…
There was no way I couldn’t be crazy about the kid. She was sweet and kind and funny. It took her a while to open up to the people around her, but when she was comfortable, like she was at the penthouse now, she crawled out of her shell, and the person she was becoming was beautiful.
Just like her mother.
I pushed the thoughts of Danna and Emmie away. I couldn’t get attached to either of them. As soon as I figured out this bullshit with the Rogues and took back what was mine for good, they were going to go home, and that would be it. I couldn’t afford to get so attached that it hurt to lose them.
Too late.
