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Maura looked at her and started to tremble. “I thought you might be.”
“What’s wrong? Why are you shaking?”
“Uh, I really want to hug you, but you have a lot of reasons to hate me.”
Bella looked at the tears tracking Maura’s cheeks, and she hugged her. She hugged her with the strength of someone who had been looking for actual family all her life.
Maura started laughing and said, “I am so sorry for what he did.”
Bella sobbed and hiccupped. “It wasn’t you. It was him. I can still despise him and love you.” She gasped. “I am getting married to Loki; will you be my maid of honour?”
Maura smiled. “You might want to get to know me better.”
“I suppose. So, are you allergic to eggplant?”
Maura laughed. “Yeah. You?”
“Yeah.”
“One thing in common aside from our appearances.” She smiled. “So, you have three mates?”
“Yeah, one particular alpha, one normal alpha, and an omega, but the omega would want to be mentioned first.”
“Of course.” Maura smiled. “So, have you noticed that the gold club members seem to resemble Polly’s mate, yours, and some of the other guys we have bumped into in the last few years?”
“To use a stereotype, drunk Japanese businessmen at a karaoke bar?”
“They look slightly more local than that.” Maura cocked her head. “Slightly.”
Bella rolled her eyes. “Oh lord. Ulric wants a turn.”
Polly finished and grinned at Ulric as he stepped up to the stage. The ladies laughed and applauded at the omega in the business suit as he took the microphone.
He called out, “Hey, Bella, it’s a duet.”
Bella smiled. “I think that is an invitation. Do you mind?”
“I will see you at the wedding. Don’t worry.” Maura smiled. “I am around. My day job is with Loki’s grandmother, so I usually am where you can find me.”
Bella hugged her and then sprinted to the stage. She had mates to rely on, and she was learning about her half-sister. It was a pretty good day.
* * * *
Hours passed, and more of the guys came up to sing. Even Minoru’s lawyer was up there, and he had a pretty good singing voice.
An arm snaked around her waist, and a voice murmured, “I like the outfit.”
“It beats a tee that saysSuck for a Buckcovered in hard candy.” She lifted her head to him. “You aren’t supposed to be here.”
“I am a gold club member of this fine establishment.”
“Of course you are.” She leaned back against him, and he lowered a hand to her belly. “Thanks, Captain Obvious. Now all of the guys are staring.”
The women were looking and glancing away. The alphas were staring and then searching the crowd of ladies for signs of their mate. Polly looked up at her mate again. “You totally squealed on the ladies.”
“Yes, but there are more here than I was aware of.”
“Aggie found them. She asked the book club as the patterns on our backs are fairly distinctive and don’t match the physical changes some of the other betas have gone through. We look totally normal until we climb out of a hot tub.”
