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Lucy:"I could just sign my name right now, Alpha Cade. Both you and your mate have already signed," I respond, simply wanting to see how he will react."Mate..." Liam whispers, almost like a warning to be respectful."What? Am I wrong? Why should I start bargaining now?" I ask, pushing Cade's buttons.I had thought the weird feeling I was getting was coming from Alpha Talon, but it still existed in the room after he left.'It's envy that you're sensing Lucy,' Nia chimes in."If our mates are bound to you, don't you think they should have the same advantages as you do?" Cade challenges.Fair point.The Alpha oath not only bound them in a way that put their connection to their pack at risk but also left their mate to whatever fate I had, if they chose to reveal any secrets to anyone else.Meaning that if they told anyone without approval and the result of them telling someone ended up with me getting hurt, their mate would endure whatever pain I did, even death.Although I did apprecia
Leon:"Alpha Leon, with all due respect, I need to see the proof," Rusty says.I was expecting as much and was nervous about Rusty's reaction. His cousin was on the council, which was part of why my pack and my family had some trust in the council all along."First, I'll need each Alpha to give an oath of secrecy," I announce.The room gets quiet as I had assumed that it would. This type of oath wasn't done often as it bound each Alpha together. If any one of them went back on their word and exposed the secrets to anyone, the others would know, and it would take their connection from their pack."No one has done an Alpha oath in centuries, Leon. Are you mad?" Alpha Talon says, shaking his head.Lucy sits up straight in Liam's lap, looking intrigued for the first time since we got here.Alpha Talon was head of the Mossy Lake Pack, a neighboring pack that we've always been civil with but were somewhat more hesitant with than a few of the others.'Think he knows already? If he doesn't ta
Lucy:"Don't wake her up, idiot." That's Liam."I'm not. I'm just bringing her breakfast in bed in case she wakes up hungry," Leon hisses lowly.I've been lying awake, pretending and praying to fall back asleep for the last fifteen minutes as they argue "quietly."I never had siblings, so this was the only first-hand experience I had dealing with sibling bickering.Seth pulls me into him from behind.'Think they'll ever leave so I can have you to myself? I was patient for their birthday, but it's not their birthday anymore,' Seth links me, clearly the only one recognizing that I'm awake.The room gets uncomfortably silent for a moment before I feel a body plop on top of my legs."You have to close the link to the rest of us if you want to be sneaky dumbass!" Leon laughs when Liam comes back into the room and doggy piles on top of Leon and Seth, pinning my legs to the bed."Holy shit, what time is it?" I complain, gripping the side of the bed at an angle, trying to pry my body out from
Leon:"We can talk more about all of that later. I haven't had my mate to myself all night," I say, scooping Lucy up and leaving Liam to continue the conversation with Tony and his mate."Hey! I wanted to hear what that was about!" Lucy pouts as I take her to a secluded area."All work and no play, Lucy. Come on, little mate, it's my birthday," I pout, gently pushing her against the side of the pack house wall.Our connection to the pack snapping into place had made me feel needier for her than usual."Isn't the whiny thing more Liam's style?" she teases me as I lift her up by her ass and press her against the wall again."You're right. I take what I want," I murmur, dipping my face into the crook of her neck and enjoying the way her skin is instantly covered with goosebumps."Mmm," she hums, wrapping her legs around my waist and tilting her head to give me better access."What if someone sees?" she questions but makes no move to stop me."They're all distracted with the events from to
Liam:'Why didn't she tell us that was her core gift?' Bo asks.We could have used her magic to heal Nadia had we known this.Was this what she had meant about her gift morphing into what it needed to be?'It makes sense, actually. Her magic healed Leon and me in the womb. I guess she figured we knew,' I respond, watching our mate in awe.A ceremony where the pack gives their blessing was unheard of, but Lucy doing things out of tradition wasn't exactly unheard of; it was fitting.I watched intently next to my brother and Seth as Lucy used the knife to make a small cut on Tony's hand, where he then dripped her blood into the chalice while the pack continued reciting their blessings.Lucy had already marked and mated with all three of her mates; therefore, by blessing our leadership, they were also blessing our union with Lucy in a way.Lucy had to understand this. Her ideas always made the most sense once you looked at them the right way.I can feel the relief from not only my family b
Lucy:"Tony, you barely know her. How are you going to trust her?" a woman next to him asks.He looks down at his wrist in my hand and over at the woman."Is this your mate?" I ask, and he nods, giving his mate a look I don't understand.I sighed, irritated that I understood why she would question this.I shift my eyes, exposing the Dragon's eye in front of everyone.The woman next to Tony, among many others, gasped and backed away from me like I was a monster, but I was expecting as much.I got a good enough glimpse of everyone to know what to do now."You can't have children," I say; it's not a question.She looks at Tony and back at me with tears in her eyes."How did you know that?" she asks in a shaky voice, her hands resting on her lower stomach."One of many gifts," I smile at her gently.I can feel my mates staring at me, but I keep my focus on the woman."What's your name?" I ask, stepping in front of her, softly grabbing her hands and removing them from her stomach."Darcy,"