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Chapter 23
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The hot water pounded against my tender skin as I leant against the cool tile letting the water wash away the horrors of the day. The water ran red down the drain as blood from the man in the woods drained away before eventually running clear but still, I didn’t move, it was like all of a sudden everything hit me.
I had been kidnapped, ready to be sold, I had killed a man and now my new pack knew the secret I had been hiding. Tristan didn’t say anything about it after he showed me the ice on his arm and I had absolutely no idea what that meant, or what was going to happen, but the whispers had started already.
As we had walked back to the cars the pack arrived in with Tristan’s arm around my shoulders holding me close, I heard them.
“What is she?” “How did she do that?”
The disbelief and questions was how it had started back in oak creek, before fear and dis
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Cali“Well, I never thought I would see this day.” My mums voice sounded in the room, and I span from in front of the mirror to see both my parents and my brothers stood in the open doorway. Staring, not that I could blame them. I certainly didn’t look like the Cali they were used to seeing.“Oh Calista, you look beautiful.” My Mum gasped her hands covering her mouth and tears in her eyes and I glanced down yet again at the floaty white dress that hugged my figure perfectly and left trails of silk swishing around my legs. I took a deep breath and looked back to my family once again.“Thank you, Mum.” I smiled trying not to fidget with the perfectly positioned curl that sat at the side of my face.Amber, Roman and Julianna had done an amazing job of arranging everything as far as I could tell, the three had been running around like headless chickens all afternoon. I glan
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Cali“Oh sweetheart, I’m so happy for you.” My mum whispered wrapping me up in a hug as soon as Tristan and I stepped into the ballroom. Decorated extravagantly with flowers and lights for the event the room was completely different from the last time I was in here, and absolutely packed with people.A band was starting up playing gentle music into the crowd of chatting guests, waiters walked around with trays of canapés and glasses of champagne.“Thank you.” I smiled trying to ignore everything that was going on around me.“I’m going to go check in with Roman and Damian.” Tristan murmured from beside me once my mother released me. He pressed a gentle kiss on my cheek that turned to something else entirely when I felt his desire through the bond, and I shifted where I stood rubbing my legs together as I flooded with that heat that only he could induce.
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CaliTristan genuinely looked like he was at his wits end, not that I could blame him, yet again he was shouldering a hell of a burden and there didn’t seem to be a reprieve around the corner. I watched as he sat back in his office chair, scrubbing his face with his hands as he took deep breaths, trying to control the overwhelming emotions running through him, frustration, anger, disappointment, disbelief, not one of them were positive and left me feeling overwhelmed and I only felt the echo of his emotions.Anger seemed to tip the scales a little as he dialled the phone and placed the call on loudspeaker on his desk waiting for the other person to pick up. He tapped a finger on the desk, and I bit my lip, I had a feeling that Lotus pack were about to be on the receiving end of all of Tristan’s pent up frustrations.“Leroux.” A young voice answered and my eyes flicked up to Tristan in surprise. Alpha Paxon was far from young, his son Abel was set to take over any day, but word was tha
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RomanJack Elisse’s voice carried when he was mad, I didn’t even have to force my hearing to listen in on their conversation, standing in the hallway, with the door closed, I could hear him as crystal clear as if he was stood beside me, and every one of his words sliced through my patience like a knife through butter. I could practically feel Tristan’s displeasure from here, and I had no doubt that after this performance I was shortly going to be on the wrong end of another one of the Alpha’s rants.The fact that I had to step out of the room at all was just icing on an already fucked up cake.“Look at you, standing there like you think I’m in the wrong. They always said that Alpha Leroux was fair, tough but fair and yet you’re taking that bastards side without blinking. You have to know that he’s in the wrong here, behind that blank mask of yours, you cannot be this blind.” I winced at the older man’s words, knowing just how pissed off Tristan was right now, there was no way that wou
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AmberIt literally felt like my heart had been torn from my chest. The only man I had ever loved, had a child with someone else.“Romans talking with Tristan, he was up here with you for a while but Tris is pissed.” Cali informed from her seat beside me on the bed, although I could barely focus on her words, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to.“I don’t want to see him.” I muttered and Cali shook her head.“Don’t talk like that, you’ll work through it.”“I don’t care, right now Cali, I do not want to see him. How could he do this to me?” I asked as the tears fell from my eyes and my hands went to my stomach. The child he had been so worried about, scared to raise, wasn’t even his first.“There’s still a chance the baby isn’t his.”“I don’t believe that, and neither do you. We both saw his face Cali. The baby is his.”“So, what are you going to do?” The question was asked tentatively but that was the question of the hour, what was I going to do?“I don’t know, but I can’t, right now I just c
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