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“I know. I’ll tell you tomorrow. Not tonight, Tuli. Not before bed. Rest. We can fight again in the morning,” he said sadly. I was going to argue but decided against it. Instead, I let myself go to sleep as he rubbed the tiny baby bump that had started to make an appearance.
Chapter thirty-nine
Markus
IwatchedCelesteeather Pop-Tart this morning. My neck was hurting from falling asleep without a pillow last night. I was still mad that she tried to sleep away from me. At the same time, I knew I deserved it. I was keeping something from her, and it was time to come clean. We’d had three different fights over her having a guard while on pack grounds, and she didn’t understand why I wouldn’t relent. She thought I was being overprotective for no reason.
To be honest, I hadn’t planned on keeping it from her for more than a few hours, but with all the tests Dr. West and Dr. Castle insisted on doing to make sure the pregnancy was going as it should, the nerves had gotten to me. They were worried about her and the pups because of the long-term malnutrition. What if this news caused harm to her or the pups? But now, I knew keeping it from her was worse. She shut down her side of the bond when she figured out I was keeping something from her, and not knowing how she was feeling or if something was wrong had Atlas and me stressing more than we thought possible.
Celeste continued eating her Pop-Tart, not saying anything while she waited for me to explain myself. I pushed my hand through my hair and got right to it.
“Luna Luisa and Sandra escaped,” I said, making Celeste choke on her Pop-Tart. I ran over as she hunched over and patted her back until the airway cleared, but she continued to hyperventilate long past the incident. The bond burst open, and I felt her emotions going everywhere as she processed the information. I sat down and pulled her onto my lap, hugging her, letting the mate bond, Atlas and my determination to keep her safe calm her down. I smelled burning and finally noticed Celeste’s eyes were ablaze. I looked around and found the wastebasket on fire.
‘Gillian, can you come to my office? Celeste is having a panic attack, and the wastebasket is on fire.’
‘On my way,’he said. Less than a minute later, he came in with a fire extinguisher and put out the wastebasket and then the chair that was right behind us.
“You told her then?” he asked. I nodded, but that was a mistake. Celeste snapped her head to Gillian, and he paled at the look she gave him. I wanted to shrink back when she turned her glare to me next.
“Did everyone but me know?” she asked, and I looked away guiltily. I had to make sure everyone was keeping an eye on her. I couldn’t lose her. Celeste stood up suddenly and moved around the couch toward the door. I jumped over it to block her way.
“Where are you going?” I asked.
“I am going for a run,” she said, and panic filled me.
“No,” I said.
“No? Am I a prisoner now?” she asked, her eyes blazing with fire again, and Gillian doused the curtains with the fire extinguisher.
“No, of course not, Tuli. Please. It’s not safe,” I begged.
She thought about it and nodded sharply at me. For a second, I thought I was in the clear before she plunged the dagger into my heart.
“I am going to spend the day in our bedroom. I don’t want to see you right now. I don’t want to see any of you. You all need to respect me for who I am. I’ll no longer be a passenger in my life, letting everyone else decide what’s best for me, what I can and cannot do or know.” She walked around me and stopped at the door to look back at me.
“Try to push me, and I‘ll jump out the window and go on my run, and we both know none of you can catch Kara,” she growled. Her eyes flickered to black a couple of times. She was fighting Kara, but I felt she was fighting her from taking off or losing her shit on us. Kara had been feeling the hormones a lot harder than Celeste, and I knew her decision to stay in the pack house was her being rational, where Kara would still go to prove a point.
I felt Celeste shut me out of the bond again when she stomped past the door and toward the elevator. Zack followed her up, and I was glad Celeste didn’t do anything to prevent it. I walked over to the desk and slumped on my chair, putting my head in my hands. This was not how I hoped this would go, but at this point, I counted myself lucky she hadn’t run away.
Kara shut you out, too?I asked Atlas, who whined.
Shortly after telling me what she wanted to do with our dicks if we got close enough. We fucked up.
“Umm, should I tell Maya to go check on her?” Gillian asked, but I shook my head.
“No, I’m pretty sure Maya is included in her shit list right now, and I don’t doubt she would follow on her threat. The best thing to do is wait out her anger and hope some groveling will smooth things out later,” I answered miserably. “Have we heard anything from the council?” I asked, hopefully. Finding them would go a long way to smoothing things over with Celeste. I sent two of my best trackers to help.
“They followed them to no man’s land, but the council is hesitant to send three wolves by themselves into rogue territory.”
I slammed my fist against the desk, hearing it crack.
“Have they figured out how they got away?”
“Beta Trevor got his hands on a wolfsbane dart gun one of the guards was carrying and the keys to their cuffs off him after incapacitating him. He uncuffed the women but didn’t have time to get them off him or Alpha Geoff. The girls shifted and ran while the remaining guards struggled with the men,” he informed me. “We will find them, Markus. I sent a couple of guards to join the trackers. They know what’s at stake. They won’t let us down. Celeste will be okay.”
I leaned back into the chair and tried pulling on the mind-link not surprised to find it blocked.
“But will we?” I wondered, mostly to myself.
