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I didn’t feel a hundred percent better, but it was a start. All I needed was Lucien, he was my mate and the other assholes could just suck my dick.
18
AEON
Walking out of Katarina’s room was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do in my life. She looked scared, confused, lost in whatever was going on in her head. When I walked into the bathroom with Lucien, I thought Caston had infiltrated her mind again. The bath water was steaming, her breathing was heavy, and she was shaking.
The moment I commanded her to look up at me, I saw her beautiful violet eyes and knew it was just her, losing control. All I wanted to do was walk out the door, to get as far away from her as I could. But, I needed to help her, to make up for the fact that I wasn’t there for her when she needed me the most.
Once she calmed down, I dragged myself out of there, to go outside and wait for the curse to call to me. As I was about to leave, Zev entered with a blanket and a book.
“Have you seen, Katarina?” he asked, looking around me.
“She’s upstairs with Lu, she’s having an episode,” I said suspiciously.
“An episode, what do you mean episode?”
The concern in his voice confused me.
“What did you do to her?” I growled, my wolf was on edge, ready to kick his ass if he had done something to her. He smelled like her.
“Nothing she didn’t want me to do to her.” He glowered at me.
I knew I had smelled him on her, but I didn’t think it was because they became intimate. The redness on her wrists and her disheveled hair made sense now. As much as I wanted to get mad at him, I knew whatever was going on wasn’t because of what they had done.
“What episode?” he snapped.
“Her bond magic is getting stronger and she was losing control. At first, Lu and I thought Caston had taken control of her, but I think she’s feeling the stress of what happened to her.”
“You haven’t taught her how to protect her mind?” He looked at me like I was an idiot.
“Look, things have been complicated—”
“More complicated than keeping her safe and giving her the tools she needs to keep him out of her head?” he scoffed at me.
“Coming from the guy who keeps saying he hates her and he won’t help us,” I yelled.
“I’m not the one who keeps saying things like she’s meant for us. If you’re treating your future mate like that, I’d hate to see how you actually treat her when you’re mated.” His voice took a deeper tone. “I foolishly believed she was going to be safe with you guys, but it looks like you are failing her.”
“Watch it.” I pushed his shoulder back.
“Don’t like the truth?” He stepped closer until we were nose to nose.
My wolf was ready to lash out, but I knew he was right. We preached about keeping her safe, but we were doing a shit job.
“He’s right, we’ve dropped the ball since the attack. The bond magic is getting stronger.” Lucien's voice broke through the tension.
“We?” I growled. “If I remember correctly, she’s your mate not mine.”
“You also said that we would keep her safe.” He looked irritated and I knew he was getting tired of my bullshit.
“Well, I changed my damn mind, she’s too much to handle,” I said, quickly grasping for anything so that I could pull away.
Zev’s eyebrows went up in shock, but he narrowed his eyes at me, making me turn away. Zev would see right through me. They both could.
Lucien laughed. “Ok, keep lying to yourself and let me know how that goes, because if you didn’t care you wouldn’t have walked into that bathroom to help me.”
I bared my teeth at him.
