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How were we going to tell Lake she was ours, too?
Hell, after Riven, she might not care.
Riven and Shaye were arguing the entire time before I heard the toilet flush. We moved inside and stood in the entryway, waiting for them. I gave Lake’s shoulder a squeeze. He was barely holding it together.
“There, are you fucking happy?” Her screams echoed through the cabin.
“No, I’m not happy. Are you kidding me?” he shot back. “Do you have any idea what you were going to do to him?”
“Yes, I do, which is why I wasn’t going to do it. Until I came here, I didn’t know he was my mate.”
“What?” That caught Riven by surprise and he stopped short.
We all turned to Lake, and he nodded, agreeing with her.
“She didn’t. I took suppressors.”
“We knew you did, but we didn’t realize that she didn’t know. I thought you said Everett found out,” Drew said.
“He did, that doesn’t mean she did.”
“This is a lot more fucked up than I realized,” Riven said.
He sat down heavily on the couch and gripped his black hair in his hands again. It was short enough that it spiked through his fingers.
At this point, Shaye was more mad than sad. Her tears had dried, and her hands were fisted at her sides. She was gorgeous but she had that same lingering sadness about her that Lake held tightly to him.
“Why were you sleeping in your car with them?” I questioned. My voice was a whole lot more gentle, and she turned to me.
She started to answer before sniffling and going over to the box of tissues that someone left on the side table. She blew her nose and composed herself before she came back. It might have been her way of gathering her thoughts but her voice had the nasally quality of someone who had been crying for days on end.
Hell, for her, it was likely a full year of tears. My chest ached for my mate and the pain she endured.
“Because this had been my plan since before I left home. I didn’t think I could do this anymore. I doubt anyone in this house knows what it’s like to lose a mate.”
“Yeah, but I know what it’s like to lose my twin,” Lake said in a broken whisper. “And now you were going to take my best friend from me, too.”
She looked guilty and then shifted her gaze to us.
“Can we not do this in front of strangers?”
“We’re not strangers, we’re his pack,” Riven said. If her nose wasn’t so clogged from crying, she’d probably realize we were hers, too.
“What are you guys even doing here?” Lake asked as he looked around at them. “I asked you guys not to come.”
“Well, good fucking thing we did,” Riven countered, deflecting.
Drew stood up, pulling me with him. “We got dinner. The plan was to bring it out, check on you, and if you were fine, we’d leave if you wanted us to. Come on, Micah, let’s grab the food before it’s too cold.”
We both walked outside to get the boxes and drinks before coming back into the awkward silence that had taken hold.
“Go to the table. Sit, and eat,” Riven demanded. It was to both of them.
Shaye glared at him, but Lake didn’t hesitate to take her hand and lead her over to the dining room table, sitting her down before sitting next to her.
Drew sat on her other side, which is probably for the best. She could use some beta calm in all this craziness.
I had never been to a more awkward dinner in my life, and that was saying something because I grew up with the most narcissistic parent pack that ever was.
