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I head back to Zara’s room after Estelle leaves and sits on the edge bed with a sigh.“I’m sorry, Keller. I didn’t mean to cause more trouble.” Zara looks at me with a pout. She reaches out her hand and pulls on my fingers. I take her hand in mine and give it a gentle kiss, then hold it up to my cheek. The sparks of our mate bond feel so good. I never want to let her go.“It’s okay, Pocket. I know it wasn’t on purpose.” I give her hand back and lay down next to her, propping myself up by the elbow. She smiles and kisses my forehead, caressing the scruff on my chin with her good hand. “Estelle is going to stop by Tuesday evening. She wants to talk with you about some things.”“Mmm... okay? Keller, wow come you never said you had a dining room? And what is in those other rooms?” She brushes my hair out of my face, watching me with curious blue eyes. “I’m not mad or anything. I just always thought it was a storage
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“Keller! Where the Hell have you been?! Sam and I have been trying to call you all day!” Jasper sounds exasperated when he picks up the phone. "We were worried about you, bro."“Where the Hell have I been? Now you're worried about me? You didn’t seem too bothered when you let my brother stick a fucking needle in my neck last night.” The growl in my voice is unmistakable, but I don’t care.“No, Keller, I swear I didn’t know. I asked Jensen if he could get his hands on any of the drugs you guys confiscate from the girls you help. I thought it would be fun. Why would I think he was going to go that hard? You're his brother!” Jasper scrambles for something to say. “I didn’t know he was going to shoot you up with who knows what. He and Skylar dipped right after, so I couldn't find out what he actually dosed you with. And then you seemed out of it, but still good enough to party.”Jensen doesn't mess with drugs. So, what would he have given me? I think back to the day Mom
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In the living room, Zara is standing at the whiteboard, already in deep concentration. She has her laptop in one hand and a dry erase marker in the other. “Hey, Pocket.” I stand beside her and look over her shoulder as if I have any clue what she’s doing. “Hi,” she says in a distracted tone. Her brow is knit, and she is muttering something under her breath at the laptop screen. It’s obvious she barely recognizes that I’m standing here. “Want me to order dinner? Then we can go to the other side of the penthouse, so you can look around.” I resist the temptation to wrap my arms around her waist. She looks at another line on a spreadsheet and counts on her fingers. “Dinner? Uh, yeah. Can I get a cheeseburger?” “A cheeseburger? Of course. Whatever you want, Pocket.” I can’t take it anymore. I pull her hair away from her shoulder and kiss the crook of her neck, making her lean into my face and giggle. “Sorry. I got distracted.” She clo
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“Hey, Pocket, it’s going to be okay.” I sit her on a stool at the breakfast bar and kiss her cheeks where the tears are staining her face. “We’re going to figure it out. If this was your parents’ home, maybe there was a paper trail. If you want me to find out where they are, why they left, I can do that. I can get people on it this week.” “No. I want to forget about them. They wanted nothing to do with me. I want nothing to do with them.” She wipes the rest of her tears from her face. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to get upset like that. It’s stupid.” “Eh, no. It’s not stupid at all, Zara.” I pull her into a hug again and rub circles on her back. “I would be worried if you didn’t get emotional. It’s a big deal.” Just then, I get a notification that the driver was here to deliver the food. I have the front desk send him up while Zara puts place settings on the breakfast bar for us. Once we settle in and she seems more calm, I give her a gentle reminder that she and I stil
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“Come on, Lavender. It’s time to get out of the car. Look, Mom is here, so is Dad. Zara will sit next to them until it’s time for her to go up front for questioning. Okay? Plus, the Alpha and Luna Regents are here. Their guards are all here and on high alert. No one is going to hurt you. No one is even going to try. They would be crazy if they did.” I hold my hand out to my scared little mate, while she shivers in the passenger’s seat of my Range Rover. We have been trying for twenty minutes to convince her to get out of the car and go into the packhouse for Rocky’s trial. “Zara… er… Lavender, it’s Amy. Keller’s mom. Listen, sweetheart. I can’t even imagine how scared you are, but Phil and I will not let anything happen to you. Trust me, there are plenty of wolves in there that don’t like us either. We know how to handle them. You’re safe with us. I promise.” Mom stands next to me and strokes Zara’s hair. “I’ll hold your hand the entire time until you have to testify. Okay?
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When I finally get Zara calm enough to sit by herself, Mike asks questions straight from the list he gave us. He tries his best to be calm and patient to get the best information he can out of her. “That was torture for me. I can’t imagine how she feels. Tomorrow is going to be a real treat.” Mike says when he gets back to his seat. I quietly remind him that Zara is my mate and should treat her that way before he gets too out of line. “Miss Wilson, is it true that you ran away from the scene of the crime?” The pack lawyer asks. He slams his hands on the table in front of him. I feel myself standing up to stop him, but Mike pulls me down. “Mister Craine, WATCH yourself.” The Alpha Regent growls, rumbling the room. His onyx black eyes glare at the lawyer, who bows his head in submission. “Treat this witness the same as any other who has a special consideration. I will not sit by and let you or anyone else in this courtroom intimidate her. Do I make myself clear
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Mom makes Zara and me eat a few more bites of our food, and we head back to our seats. As we make our way down the aisle, more pack members growl or snarl at us. Guards promptly remove them and help us keep moving. For the afternoon session, the Luna Regent leads the proceedings. Her voice is beautiful, but doesn’t give me the odd sensation it had before. She calls Alpha Williams to the stand and the lawyers question him for over an hour. He has nothing productive to say, but I am acutely aware that he keeps looking over my shoulder at Zara. Before they dismiss him, the Luna a question that he seems prepared for. “Alpha Williams, why do you believe these seven guard trainees tried to attack Rocky?” “Hanlon’s Razor.” He says with confidence. The Alpha Regent sits forward. “Forgive my ignorance, Alpha Williams. What the Hell is Hanlon’s Razor?” “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” Alpha Williams no
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Zara is quiet when we leave the pack house and on the ride home. She perks up a little over takeout Thai food for dinner, but then excuses herself to the living room.I let her work and go to my office to read some of her journal, like she asked me to. The entries don’t seem to be in chronological order. Whatever page she opened to, is where she would write, giving the entries a sense of urgency. Some of her writings are dark and disturbing. Not like the Zara I know or love at all. This is beyond the walls she described trying to crush her. It’s like she has resigned herself to the shadows they have created, just waiting until the day they fall. I try to imagine the mind of someone who could write about hurting themselves, but I can’t, especially not her.As I flip through the pages, reading bits and scraps of paper that Zara has haphazardly pasted into the book. One scrap has my name on it. The surrounding words were random, mixed in with odd glyphs
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“Zara, first, I want you to know that your parents loved you. They had no choice when they left you and they never stopped trying to find you and get you back.” Tyree’s tone differs from what I’ve heard from him before. It’s more apologetic and compassionate, like a father trying to make his child understand another point of view. “Tyree, how could I possibly believe that?” Zara holds her hand up to stop him. “They left me on the steps of the pack house. I wasn’t even a week old. They didn’t want me.” “It’s not true, Zara. I promise you it’s not true. Your father’s name is Scott Eklund. Your mother is Sondi. They came here because the Alpha from Emerald Mountain banished them. They were seeking asylum, and it was granted.” Tyree sits back and sighs. “From what I understand, your father attacked the pack’s Beta, trying to defend Sondi. Your mother said she never had a problem with the Beta and barely knew him. Your father had issues with mental illness. He was paranoid and refused to
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“First and foremost, thank you all for being here today. I’m going to keep my portion short.” Jasper stands at the podium, now tenured in speaking in front of crowds, looking comfortable to address the room. He pulls out a notecard from his jacket pocket and glances down at it. “There is someone very special I would like to introduce you to. She’s not only the lead scientist for the Sigma Project, she is the mastermind behind the medication that has made this whole thing possible.” Jasper looks into the wings and gives Zara a thumbs up. I feel her take a deep breath under my hands. “This talented woman completed her undergraduate degree and masters in biochemistry, and she’s almost finished with her doctorate all in just over six years. On top of that, she is now the youngest Nobel Prize Laureate ever. In chemistry and in medicine. Friends, she’s the hardest worker in the room, by far the smartest person you will ever meet, an incredible mother, and one of my closest friends. Oh and
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“Hey guys, your flight was okay?” Tyree meets us at the doors of the Blood River pack house and ushers us inside. “I know the ride from the airport can be a killer.” “It was great. Thanks, Tyree.” Jasper shakes his hand. “We are all looking forward to this afternoon.” “Uncle Tyree!” Orli runs up to her favorite person and hops to be picked up. “Dillon and I went to kindergarten! I got to show the teacher that I know my alphabet.” “I heard! Did you listen to your teacher?” He holds Orli in his massive arms and gives her a kiss on the cheek. She nods with a shy smile and leans back. “Look at my dress! Daddy says today is special, so I wanted to look pretty. And tomorrow I get to wear my flower girl dress. So I got two pretty dresses to wear.” “Oh, my Goddess.” He smooths down the front of her dusty blue dress. “You are always pretty, baby girl, but this dress makes your eyes look EXTRA blue.” Orli giggles and leans her head on his shoulder, perfectly content to stay with him as lon
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The longer Zara takes the sigma serum, the more I notice differences. She isn’t taller or stronger, but some days it seems like it. She handles stress better and doesn’t shy away when she has to speak with people she’s not familiar with like she would have in the past. She almost never has a flight or fight response anymore. It’s refreshing to see her handle life with more confidence and less anxiety and fear. Katie is also doing much better with the new version of the serum than the first one. Instead of putting her on medications, they increase her therapy to once a week. Besides learning how to read with ease, Katie also observes things she never had before. Traffic patterns, the way birds fly together in the sky, the layout of the grocery store, things most people take for granted. She seems to see for the first time. As with all things, with the good comes the bad. Zara starts to have more bad days. A lot more bad days. Mom and Dad take shifts to monitor her while Estelle and
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“You’re sure you feel okay?” Zara is already sitting on my lap, but I take her face in my hands and look her in the eye. I look her over and give her a quick peck on the cheek. “You don’t feel warm or anything?” “I feel fine, Keller. I just took the serum fifteen minutes ago.” She covers my hands with hers. “It takes a couple hours for it to get into my system. Right now I’m just exhausted. We intentionally added a light sedative to this version, and it was a later night than I was expecting. If I had known you planned to stay at a hotel instead of going home, I would have packed a bag.” “I’ll know better for next time.” I nuzzle her cheek and settle into the recliner. “You tell me if you feel weird at all. Even a little bit.” “I will, sweetheart.” She leans her head against my shoulder and places her hand on my chest. I slide my hand over hers and interlock our fingers. It makes me smile to feel the ring on her finger. I look at Jasper, who has Katie in his lap as well. He has
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“Keller, it’s safe now. It’s taken a few months, but it’s perfect. Estelle and I are sure of it.” Zara hands Orli a piece of banana while she tries to convince me it’s time for her to take what she now calls the sigma serum one point one six. “Zara, I don’t know how many times I can tell you. I’m not okay with it.” I adjust the position of Dillon’s little fork and help him scoop macaroni and cheese onto it. I look up at Zara to see if she’s paying attention. She takes a sip from her glass of juice and sets it down, then places her hands on the counter and drums her fingers impatiently. “Keller-” “Zara.” I feel my mood darken as I glare at her. “Keller, I feel like a broken record. I would be a hypocrite if I said it’s fine for other sigmas, but too dangerous for me.” She wipes Orli’s mouth with a bib and hands her a sippy cup. “We know the women who have met their mates have different body chemistry now. We’ve made adjustments to the sigma serum accordingly. It’s just another leve
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I thought it was going to be difficult to get Zara to pull out of the study, but it wasn’t. She was more worried about what could have happened to Orli and Dillon and everyone else she loves and cares about. Two days after the incident, she goes to the lab to speak to the other volunteers to let them know why she has pulled out, but promises them they will still get to see her all the time because she is going to be working directly with Estelle. Katie, on the other hand, won’t be deterred. Even after we explain that she and Zara could have died, she insists she wants to keep going. Jasper is miserable, but puts on a brave face for her. He spends lunch with her every day and comes home to mope. Zara and I try to cheer him up and even help him take care of Mister Happy and Midnight. Mom takes over nanny duty while Katie is away. “Zara, it’s only been a month. Are you sure taking all nine girls all the way to Cozy Up is a good idea?” Jasper stops her from leaving the lab to let the gi
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My body feels heavy and Zara’s weight gets pulled off of me, forcing me awake. “What happened? Is she okay?” Someone drained the water out of the tub. Mom has Zara wrapped in a towel, holding her like a baby in her arms. Estelle is next to her, checking Zara’s temperature. “It’s fine, Honey. Her temperature has been normal for an hour. We’re going to put her in bed. I brought you a change of clothes. Come out when you’re dressed.” “Ace is on his way to check on our baby girl.” Estelle lets Mom take Zara out of the room and sits on the edge of the tub. She unfolds a towel and hands it to me. “Are you okay?” “I will be once I know she is.” I wipe my face and chest. “Before she passed out, she said more carrots and less love. Lavender was relaying the message.” Estelle purses her lips and nods. “Yeah. We had talked about that before the study but went with the more potent formulation. I’m going to get a batch of the other one started as soon as I get back to the lab.” “If she’s okay
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“Keller will grab Zara. I’ll grab Katie’s top half, just grab her legs. Stop her from kicking if you can.” Les motions how Jasper should try to hold on to Katie. “We’ll take her to the nursery bathroom.” “How do we know who will come out first?” Jasper looks at me and back at Les. Les gives Jasper a sweet smile. “Oh, darling, so innocent. Wolf mentality.” “Wolf mentality?” He looks at me for help. “Wait, how do we know they didn’t turn into wolves? Shift. How do we know they haven’t shifted?” “Their wolves have an advantage to use their senses but stay in human form right now.” Les tugs at her braided ponytail. “They can open doors, push elevator buttons, call for help, things like that.” “Zara is freaking out because her pup is gone. Katie is going to protect Zara to give her a chance to find her baby.” I put my ear to the door. “Katie will make sure danger is out of the way.” “Katie sees Zara as more dominant than she is in the pecking order of your family dynamic. So yes, she
