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“Of course I do, but I’m not spoken for.”
“Neither are we,” I reiterated. “Though, the whole we kidnapped her thing might complicate this situation further.”
“Lavender will want to go home,” Kane said. “You can’t keep her here. She’ll move on, then maybe when Juniper is home… she would understand if you weren’t able to wait the whole time she was gone.”
He was reaching, clearly at the bargaining stage of his grief. “You wouldn’t want that for her,” I told him. “She deserves better. As does Lavender.”
Kane couldn’t look me in the eye, he just stared dejectedly at the ground by his feet. “I know. It’s just hard to let go. She’s all I have left.”
“That’s bullshit.” Archer’s voice was more aggressive than normal, making Kane’s head snap up to look at him, confusion and anger on his face.
“What?”
“You haveus. We are your pack, I don’t give a fuck what you say. You’re pack to us, and we aren’t going anywhere—no matter how many times you punch us and throw tantrums.”
“But…”
“Archer’s right,” I said. “We are all in agreement, you’re part of this pack, come rain or shine. It’s time you accepted that, I get that it’s going to take some time for you to come to grips with it, and we can hardly file official papers considering we are currently up to our eyeballs in criminal shit—but you are my pack, Kane Evans.”
He sat there, looking between us, a dumbfounded look on his face. “It feels like I’m betraying her if I accept,” he admitted quietly.
“We know, which is why you take all the time you need, but let us be happy, even if it’s for a short time.”
“I won’t stand in your way.” He heaved himself up, running his hand over his buzzed hair. “I, uh, I’m going to shower.” He didn’t look at me as he spoke, striding out of the room without a backward glance.
“That didn’t go terribly,” Archer grinned. “You’re going to have a nasty bruise though.”
“I’ll have Lavender kiss it better,” I smirked.
“When the fuck did that happen, by the way?” Archer turned on me.
“You’ve been busy, though I thought you would have picked up her scent on us.”
“I had no idea… does this mean I can, you know?”
“You’re welcome to do whatever you want, but if she opts to taser you in the balls, that’s on you.”
“She doesn’t have a taser… right?” He looked nervous.
“I wouldn’t put it past Theo to give her one, honestly. He’s obsessed with her.”
“Shit, I’d better up my game.”
ChapterThirty-Four
Lavender
Ihad insisted on going back to my own room after the waffles, telling Theo I wanted to shower alone. He had pouted, but eventually relented when I said I would come find him after. He knew I was shaken from Kane’s anger, and while he made it clear he didn’t want to leave me alone, he respected my wishes.
I wanted to crawl into the nest. The curtains were constantly closed, encasing the room in darkness. For all I knew Detective Rouche could be lurking on the grounds again, so blinds closed it was. Even though I was on the second floor two of the walls were made almost entirely of glass, looking out at the dense forest—I’d be visible from a mile away.
But I smelled like sex, and I was still a mess of sticky, dried cum. Until Kane had reacted so badly, I hadn’t minded—in fact I’d liked it. Having the alpha's scent on my skin was comforting, but now I just wanted to be clean now.
I was finger combing my hair out, trying to make it a bit easier to manage once dry, when the first cramp hit. On the scale of cramps, it wasn’t bad, like a tight fluttering deep in my stomach, annoying, but not particularly painful. It wasn’t a period cramp, no. It was a heat cramp.
How? I just finished a heat!I racked my brain, by my poor mental arithmetic, I had finished a heat only two weeks ago, I wasn’t due for another one for months! I thought back to all the information that had been thrown at us back home.
I never really paid attention, assuming I wasn’t going to match with a pack anytime soon, so I often daydreamed and did my own thing. Now, it was biting me in the ass.
