Chapter 456
Chapter 456
Neah
“You will figure it out.” Mallory offers me a smile. “You have always figured shit out.” She cradles Luca and rocks side to side as Luca makes little noises. She had settled into motherhood like it was where she was always supposed to be. Yet, a part of me was nervous to tell her I was pregnant again. How do you tell that to a woman who will never carry her own children?
Being here has given me some time to calm down, to come to my senses. And I felt more than stupid. For a brief moment, I could see why Kade had called everyone stupid.
“No one is perfect.” Mallory mutters. “You can’t keep beating yourself up over it. If Dane suspected anything, there is no way he would have let you wander off with Kade. No one would have expected a kid to do something like that. You did what most sane people would do. Think about it, by the time you could have ordered him to give you the watch, he still could have pressed it.”
“It still shouldn’t have happened.”
*Eric said that if the house was the target, it still would have happened anyway.”
I nod as I look over to my boys who are playing in the corner. Half wondering how they would react to another sibling. And half wondering whether this pregnancy was making me miss things. Last time it made me miss important things, I had been so tired with the twins.
“I’m sure they will find something.” She smiles at me.
“Even if they do, what good is it? The house is gone. The only place I’ve ever truly known as home, has gone.” “Dane will have it rebuilt.”
I nod. Knowing Dane, he was already planning a rebuild as soon as possible.
“What are you going to do with Kade?” Mallory asks curiously as she sits down next to me.
*Truthfully, I want to kill him. But I know that is wrong. At the end of the day, he is a child that has ultimately been groomed. To kill him for that, would be wrong.” I shake my head. “But he still needs a reasonable punishment for what he did.”
*Cooper did it in the same way as Cassandra did with me.” She murmurs.
I dip my chin in agreement. “I know they will find him. There is only so far he can run, even if Cooper is waiting for him.”
*And Cooper? The asshole seems to be prepared.”
I run my thumb over the tips of my fingers, I could feel the very tips of my claws hiding beneath the surface. “If he wants to play games, then let’s play a game.”
She cocks a brow at me.
“I need to work out the finer details before I share.” I kneel on the floor next to my boys, kissing the top of their heads. “Could you watch the boys a little longer? I just need to do something.”
*Sure. I will set up the spare room for you and Dane.”
Leaving their house, I hurry over to the dungeons, keeping my eyes off the mess that was my home. The guard dips his head at me and tells me that Samara seems to be more frantic than normal.
*Frantic?”
“She’s pacing alot. Muttering to herself.” He shrugs his shoulders and rolls his eyes. “Lycans.”
Talking to her Lycan.’ Nyx mumbles.
‘Maybe, but he doesn’t know that.’
The guard opens the door for me. Immediately, I hear Samara arguing with no one. She stops when she sees me. What was that noise?”
*The packhouse.”
“Cooper?” She asks quietly
“It seems that he had something to do with it, yes.”
A frown appears on her face. It slowly softens. “I’m sorry.”
“You’re sorry? For what?”
“Dakota wants me to tell you that it is all my fault. That if I hadn’t been stupid, we could have gone about this differently.”
Her words throw me off, “Why would she want me to know that?”
*She says that we are supposed to be your Beta.”
“What?” I scoff, trying to bury the laughter that is determined to break out of me. “You think that you of all people, are supposed to be my Beta?”
“Dakota thinks so.” she mutters, dropping her gaze. “I’ve been telling her she is wrong. But she is one hundred percent certain and I can’t change her mind. I told her you would probably kill us.”
Nyx snorts. ‘Never have I heard so much crap.’
Samara runs her hands over her head and drops to the floor. “I’m not expecting you to believe her or anything I say.”