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“Stop!” Aeon growled loudly, stopping Zev from coming any closer.
“Keep this up, Zev, and we will never get out of here. You hold this curse on your shoulders because you think it was your fault, and it will be your fault because you can’t get your shit together.” Aeon’s presence felt like it was charged or something was fueling this bigger presence.
Zev narrowed his eyes at him. Lucien walked up to them slowly like he was afraid to scare them.
“Can we just enjoy the rest of the night without tearing into each other? Our families have taken the journey to see us, and you’re spending it angry at the wrong fucking person.” Lucien grabbed my hands pulling me away.
Zev and Aeon argued as we left, but I didn’t want to leave them. I turned around when they erupted into their wolves. They snarled, and bit each other until I couldn’t take it.
“No! Stop!” My voice sounded louder, but what I wasn’t expecting was for them to stop.
“I’m getting sick and tired of you guys always thinking the worst of me. Now this is how this is going to work. Cut your shit now, mother fuckers, and help me find a way to break the spell. If you can’t fucking do that, then stay out of our way,” I yelled. “If you can’t stay out of our way, then I will gag you, tie you and leave you chained up to a fucking pole like a dog.”
Zev and Aeon were looking at me with wide eyes.
“I’m not going to die because you fuckers can’t learn to work together. Lucien and I planned Samhain in hopes to bring us all together, to make this work so that we could all be fucking free. I might have found something that might get us out of here.” Tears threatened to fall, but I wiped my face. “So, if you can’t contribute to us getting free then stay the fuck out of my way because so help me goddess, I will find a way to make you suffer.” I glared at the guys.
I stormed off hoping that my outburst caught their attention. I needed them to realize that fighting each other was only wasting our energy, and we needed to focus on getting out of here.
* * *
I walkedinto the library the next day, expecting to see no one, but all three guys were sitting in my usual spot. Zev looked pissed off—but if I were being honest, he always looked pissed off even when he was fucking me into next year. Aeon looked pensive and Lucien was setting down pastries on the table. The big window had enough moonlight coming through making them look otherworldly. These men were such a pain in my ass, but I had grown fond of them.
Taking a deep breath, I walked towards the table. They looked up at me, expectantly.
“Look—”
“Wait.” Zev cut me off. “I know my judgment of you has been harsh.”
“That’s an understatement,” Lucien whispered, getting a glare from Zev.
I smiled at Lucien, appreciating him siding with me.
“I know you’re not her, but—” Zev looked away like he was struggling on what to say next. “How far have you gotten in this book?”
He picked up Vivienne’s book.
“You took it before I could finish the last few entries.” I snapped at him still peeved he took it away. I got some really great orgasms out of it, so I’m not that mad anymore, but he still took it from me.
“Well, I thought it was going to give me insight about what happened the last few days she was alive, but it ends with her writing down what she told me.” He slammed the book down on the table, looking even more frustrated. “I was trying to do the right thing, then she went and cursed us.”
He walked away from the table, but turned around quickly, opening and closing his mouth a few times.
“I know our situation was shitty, I know maybe I should have handled it differently, but I was putting our lives on the line for her baby and her. If my father found out that her baby wasn’t ours, then that would have started a war. In hindsight, that might have been better.” He ran a hand down his beard, making me feel for him.
“She doesn’t know what you are talking about, Zev,” Aeon spoke up.
“I read she was seeing someone else, and I only got to where she found out about the baby.” I said, wondering what I had missed.
Zev looked at me like a broken man. If I didn’t know better, I’d say he felt like he was at fault for this entire situation.
“Vivienne told me about the baby and the guy she had slept with. She said she loved him, and if her family found out they would kill the baby. She begged me to help her. I told her that I would tell my father that it was our baby, and push for a quick mating, so we could protect her and the baby.” He started to pace. “I told her to go home, not to tell a soul, to leave everything else to me. She told me she loved me, and went back home. That was the last time I saw her.”
Zev was going to protect her but why did she curse them? What happened when she went home?
“Our pack has always cherished children; they were considered a blessing and they were our future. I knew I had to do everything I could to make sure both of them were safe, but she didn’t even give me the chance to prove myself. I owed it to Vivienne but—”
I walked towards him feeling the need to hug him or comfort him.
