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Chosen Mates, Stolen Fates Chapter 108
Deidre“Where is he?”I don’t give Mark time to sit down before I barked at him, anxious to check in on Ben. I sent Jennivah home the last hour: she was exhausted and needed sleep. And Irene finally arrived to relieve me after leading the morning meeting so I can go to Ben, who wasn’t in attendance. There are few healers I trust enough to monitor Kira. And now that her vitals are stable and the signs of her allergic reaction have passed, all we can do now is wait. I had calculated enough of the sleeping draught to make her sleep for two days. But with the adrenaline through her system, it could be any minute or as far off as tomorrow. And I’m not leaving this building until she wakes up.Mark grunts, “Down the hall. Private room 204.”I grab Mark’s hand and steer him the opposite way down the hall, winding through corridors and to my office. He yanks his hand out of mine and follows anyway. I slam the door when we’re inside. “What did Benjmain say?”“Not much. Nothing really except f
Chosen Mates, Stolen Fates Chapter 109
Deidre The meeting with Sinbad was painful. Exhausting. And no matter what Jason said, he wasn’t satisfied with our answers. He will be doubling his patrol on our shared borders until further notice, with mandatory check-ins with Mark or Janas every twelve hours. Goddess I’m exhausted. I trek back to my suite, hoping for just a few hours worth of sleep before I have to go do night duty. As obnoxious as Sinbad, I’m requiring Irene and Jennivah to text me hourly updates. Kira is still out cold. Knowing my luck she’ll wake up when I’m with Sirius tonight. But I can’t think about that right now. In the back of my mind I’ve been praying that I injected enough sleeping draught two nights ago to keep him out cold. I’m crawling into bed just as the door to our suite creaks open. “Cynthia? I need rest. Please postpone everything until tomorrow.” But then the door to our bedroom opens, and Jason slips inside. “I’ll make sure to tell her.” “Hah. Hah.” I say, pulling the sheets over me. “Ser
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Deidre“A traitor?” The word is a strong one. Strong and full of treasonous implications.As if suddenly filled with new conviction, Jason nods. “Yes. But whether or not she did, someone would have had to… to do it to her. To the baby before he was born-or after it, I don’t know. But it’s the only way to explain his eyes.”I tread carefully. “Jason?”“What?”“If Sienna did know something, or even had something done to her–Sirius still came out okay, didn’t he?”“Okay?” He spits the word out, as if it’s filthy on his tongue. “You’re missing the point!”“And what point is that, exactly?”“There are several!”“Enlighten me”He shoots me a sharp look, as if I’m being stupid on purpose. “What would you do if you suspected Kyle had done something like that?” The question is unexpected, and gives me pause. “True mates,” he emphasizes, as if to drive home his point. “You think that Kyle could have ever done something like that and not come clean about it?”“Kyle and I had our own secrets,” I
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Deidre“Because… he reminds you of her?”I force the painful silence, making him acknowledge what he isn’t saying. He sighs in protest, but his denial is weak. “This isn’t about Sienna–”So I call him on it. “This is about her, isn’t it? Because he reminds you of her? You don’t want him around?”But he digs his heels in. “Sirius will never be accepted into this pack, regardless of what story we sew; whether he is seen as my son or not. Don’t you get it?”I shake my head, disappointment beyond anything I could imagine settling in. I look at my Alpha, really look, and all I can see is fear. Fear, cowardice, and…“I was wrong,” I say. He starts, as though confused by my sudden retraction. “This isn’t about Sirius. Or Sienna. It’s about your pride. Your legitimacy, isn’t it? You see his differences as, what… a stain on your reputation?” My voice grows with every accusation, and his own anger bubbles do the surface. “Why don’t you get it? He is UNNATURAL!” Jason shouts the last word and I
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DeidreI see him come back to me, his eyes losing their far-off gaze.“Jason?”He shakes his head as if embarrassed at being caught, lost in thought. “What’s on your mind?”He squeezes his eyes shut, as if blocking out whatever he was thinking about. “I was thinking about Kyle.”I blink. Kyle? What does Kyle have to do with this?But the memory of something is fading from his eyes. I grab his hand and he grips it back, as if struggling to grasp something beyond his reach. I struggle if I should ask, but instead I say, “I’m sorry for yelling.”He rubs his eye with stiff fingers. “I’m sorry for fighting. I don’t even know how we got here.” I do, but waiver on how much I want to remind him of that. I begin to pull back from him when his other hand clasps mine in place. “I’m sorry. It’s just… this entire thing is finally beginning to take its toll on me.” I bite my lip, restraining my comment. “Twenty years ago, it seemed like a fluke. A blip on the radar. That his level of unusualness was
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Jason“And the unofficial story?” Her voice is heavy, filled with foreboding.My eyes meet hers, hard steel meeting liquid mirrors of pain. I can neither confirm nor deny with certainty, but Deidre knows me well enough to read what I won’t say.Was it Sirius? She doesn’t have the voice to ask aloud. Even in my mind, her words are trembling with the answer she isn’t prepared for.I struggle. I’ve known this day would come. For years, I’ve struggled with how I would ever say it. How I could tell her. How I could ever make any of this make sense.Inconclusive, I send back.“What the hell do you mean, ‘inconclusive’?” Her eyes are glassy, revealing the true emotion she’s failing to hide despite the venom in her words. I brace myself, knowing that I don’t have the answer she wants. “Mark and I investigated. We pulled in Janas, too. We turned over every rock, everything around him. There were traces of scent I didn’t recognize, but there were also traces of someone that I did.”“Sirius?” s
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DeidreMy mind is racing faster than my feet, if that’s even possible.I’m practically flying through the dark of the night. Rest can’t find me now. There’s no point in pretending that I won’t stop until I know for sure.Jason revealed a side of him to me I’d never seen before, and I wonder vaguely if Sienna ever knew this about her mate. That he was–that he is– so backward in all of his thinking.He has a son. A perfectly healthy son that he’s refused to let live! Get to know you properly! The only reason he’s so disillusioned and socially insufferable is because he’s been wrapped up in that place for two decades. It’s enough to drive anyone crazy.Wait. Am I actually feeling sympathy for the killer? No. NO! The anger fuels my feet as I practically dance a rhythm over the rock faces and climb.But my thoughts drift again. I feel the tiniest twinge of guilt between deep breaths, knowing that Mistra had confided in me the first night she brought me to Sirius that she suspected that wh
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Deidre“I swear that I did not kill her husband,” he says carefully.The threat of the unspoken hangs between us, like a cord that tethers us in place. The chess game lays untouched and forgotten. I refuse to blink; to break his stare. But I can’t control my breathing. The harshness of each pounding realization as I take in what he isn’t saying.And just when I feel the tension is too great, he speaks with a feral clarity that raises the hair on my arms. Each word is carefully enunciated, packing a distinct punch as he speaks through clenched teeth. He grips the sides of his chair, as if he’s trying to control himself from leaving it. “You come into my home, dear step-mother, accusing me of killing a man who helped raise me? Who helped keep this hell-hole of a house from being the prison that it is? No, dear step-mother. I never did that. Would have given three lifetimes of this hell to figure out who did. That’s what I told your husband, too.”I note the repeated use of the word ‘hus
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