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“Quit being like this, I know you’re mad. As much as you’re trying to hide it, I can still feel remnants of your feelings.” He walked up to me. “I know you hate this; I know you’re mad at me, but can I just explain myself?”

“No, now leave me alone,” I said, getting more upset.

“We’ve left you alone for a week.” Lucien walked up to us. “Our bond is stronger. We should be able to talk about things. We said we were going to make sure we didn’t go back to a pack that ignored their bond.”

I swung at another piece of wood. I chopped at a few other pieces feeling them staring at me, and I knew they weren’t going to leave me alone.

“Run with me, and I’ll talk,” I said, setting the ax on the floor.

“Let’s run,” Lucien said, first taking his pants off and shirt.

“I’m holding you to that promise, Zev. Don’t think we are just going to forget about it.” Aeon took off his pants.

“Yeah, yeah,” I said, taking off my own pants and shirts. “Let’s run.”

I transformed into my wolf and took off so we could run the perimeter of the house. It also served the purpose of making sure our wards were still up, and there wasn’t a surprise attack. It seemed that now that they were all mated, they forgot about our safety and Katarina’s.

Aeon bumped into me a few times signaling he wanted to play, but I ran around one more time before we started to play around. Lucien tackled me, nipping at my neck before we all rolled around. I barked at them, making them chase me. We ran around the perimeter a few more times before Aeon barked at me.

You can’t run forever.

I whipped my head to look at Aeon.

Did you just talk in our head?

Lucien’s voice filtered into my head, and I stopped abruptly feeling them run into me.

What is going on?I said, panicking that we could hear each other’s voices.

How is this possible?Lucien said, looking around at us.

I shifted back into human form wondering what the hell was going on. Panic hit me as I felt that everything was changing and she was the catalyst.

“Zev,” Aeon called out to me.

I had been stuck in this endless loop of time that I didn’t know how to deal with. She was changing everything; did that mean she was going to break the spell? Or was she here to give us a glimmer of hope, and when she died it would all be taken away? Another punishment we would all have to deal with when she was taken from us.

“Z!” Lucien yelled at me using his Alpha power yanking me from my thoughts. “What is going on?”

I didn’t know what to say. My heart was pounding, my head was running through the aftermath if she died. What if this was her plan all along? Would she make us fall in love with her only for her to die at the end of the year?

“Zev!”

I looked at Aeon, feeling like I was going to break.

“Breathe,” he said to me, while I was starting to breathe harder. “Zev, what’s going on, talk to me, say something.”

“What’s going on?”

It was her voice that lifted the veil of endless thoughts.

“It’s your fault!” I snarled when I focused on her.

I pushed her back into a wall with my hand over her throat. I could hear them yelling at me while someone pushed me, but I had extended my claws. They knew they couldn’t pull me off her without hurting her.

“Zev, you need to calm down,” she said, putting her hands on my arms.

This was all her fault. The rage in me was slowly starting to crack.

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