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“I don’t think that you have a right to tell anyone what they can or can’t do with Eddie. We are friends and I am not going to change that because of it. You aren’t together and he’s not married.”
She started to protest, but I wasn’t going to hear it. “You think that because he’s healed, you deserve him?”
Flora smiled smugly.
“You never deserved him, and you don’t now. Eddie is a great lover, and I will never give him up.” I couldn’t believe that I’d said the last part. I wasn’t trying to make things harder for anyone, including Eddie, but it had just slipped out. I wanted Flora to know that she that messed up. She had hurt him and I wanted to hurt her a little bit in return. Letting her know that he was amazing was all I could do.
I walked up to the bunkhouse, determined to move through her so I could get to my room. “Get out of my way, Flora! I don’t know what you want, but I don’t have anything else to say to you. It’s hard to imagine that it is ever going to change.”
“It’s all your fault!” She launched herself at me before I could say anything else.
My instincts kicked in, and I punched her in the throat. She fell to her knees, sputtering and gasping for air.
The door to the bunkhouse burst open and Eddie came rushing out. He looked from me to his ex-mate, struggling to breathe.
“Are you okay?” he asked, and I was thankful he left it at that.
“I’m fine.”
Flora was helped up and then escorted away from the bunkhouse. I was thankful for that, since I didn’t want to have anything more to do with her. She had tried to piss me off and make me regret my relationship with Eddie, but that wasn’t going to happen. I didn’t know how I was so lucky to live this life with Eddie and Patrick and Calvin, but I wasn’t going to let anyone jeopardize it. This was precious to me, and I promised myself that I wouldn’t let anyone interfere with it.
“I’m sorry, Eliza, you didn’t deserve that.”
“It’s fine Eddie, really.”
18
CALVIN
Iwas back and forth on how I felt about what life with Eliza would entail. I’d just gotten used to Eddie being part of it, and now I had to deal with her mate, Patrick. It was hard, but I had to come to terms with it. Her love was not just for me. I had to learn to share, something I never thought I would ever think about in a real way. But I wanted her, and I was willing to do about damn near anything to get her.
Everybody was on edge because we were all waiting to be attacked. It was a strange feeling, knowing that sometime soon, people were going to come out of the shadows to attack us. It was kind of impossible not to think about it. What would be would be, but saying that it didn’t weigh heavily on my mind would have been a lie. It did. I was trying to figure out what was going to happen next, which was no easy feat considering that nothing seemed to be going the way it was supposed to.
Eliza called my name as she walked out of the woods. If it was someone else, I might have been surprised but Eliza was having a bad night.
“After the drama with Flora, I don’t really want to stay in the bunkhouse.”
“You can stay here.”
“We all need to get a place together so no one has to get jealous,” she said with a laugh.
While I thought she was joking, maybe she wasn’t. I could see the validity of her idea. It would make things a lot easier if we could simply all be together. What would that even look like, though?
We talked for a little while and there was just something in the way she was looking at me. I finally asked her what was on her mind.
“Just everything, I don’t know what I am supposed to do.”
“You are doing what you can, what more can you do?” I tried to reassure her.
She shrugged. “I don’t know, I’m sorry. With everything going on, I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel. I wish that things were different, don’t you?”
“What do you wish was different?” I asked her. What if Eddie and I were what she wished was different? Did she wish that it was only one of us, neither one of us? Did she love Patrick and that was really why she mated him, not to break the bond?
“Well, I wish that the guy I was supposed to mate with wasn’t here trying to attack you guys. There’s already been so much death and it’s all my fault. I wish there was something I could do to stop this. If I could turn myself in or whatever it was if they wanted, I would. I don’t think that would really end it, though.” Sadness was shining clearly in her eyes. “They are here for other reasons and I hate that. I hate that there is nothing I can do. I’m afraid that Sterling is going to want to get rid of me. I’ve caused so much trouble, and I don’t know how much more trouble there will before this is all over. I wish so badly that there was some way to end it without any more people getting hurt.”
I felt bad for thinking that her worry had something to do with me or Calvin. “Eliza, you know it’s not your fault. I keep saying it because it’s true. You cannot feel like this is your fault. They have done this, treated you horribly, using you as an excuse to attack. They were going to attack anyway, and Sterling knows that. No one is ever going to make you leave.” If they did, I’d go with her.
“Do you really believe that?”
