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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,"
Lucy:I was surprised that none of my mates had interrupted or stopped me. The crowd was silent, but I could feel the warmth from their bodies surrounding me now.Tony is curiously observing me. I can tell that he is unsure about my comment. Maybe it feels more like an accusation for the way that I have now put him on blast."We haven't been completely honest with all of you," I start, now knowing exactly what we need to do to get the Moon Goddess's blessing."Little mate," I hear Leon behind me as he hops down off the stage."There are things at play that could endanger the entire werewolf species," I continued, hearing Liam hop down off the stage and come up on my other side.People were shifting uncomfortably, but thanks to Rosie, the crowd wasn't in full panic mode."We don't know all of the details and that's why we have kept it from you. We haven't wanted to scare anyone when we haven't yet figured out how to stop what's coming, but we can't take over this pack with half-truth
Lucy:I could always sense Silver, especially when it was pure, like the knife that had been switched out.No Alpha ceremony would contain a knife made of Silver. That was obvious.However, I wasn't worried about the Silver itself; my mates are now immune to it, but I was concerned about who switched it, if they were here at this moment, and why.My Alpha gift allows me to sense others' intentions toward me and, most recently, toward my mates as well. This was about the only reason I didn't light that cocky Alpha Rusty on fire earlier.Unfortunately, with the number of people present, it was nearly impossible to gauge what everyone was feeling and their intentions.'It's Silver. It won't hurt you. Whoever did this must not know you are both immune to the Silver,' I link my mates.They don't respond or make any movements that say they've heard me, but I know they have.The crowd grows quiet as Leon picks up the knife, lifting his wrist above the chalice and slicing it in the same spot h