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“Good, it was supposed to.”

“Kezia—”

“You’re my mate,” I snapped. “You’re bonded to me. Equals? Right?”

“Yes, but?—”

“There is no but. Me and you. Equals. That’s what you said? Am I wrong?”

Cannon sighed. “No.”

“Then what in the name of the Goddess is this shit?” When I saw my brother start to speak, my glare cut him off. “You, you can shut up until I tell you that you can speak.” For once, he did as he was told, and on any other day, I would have had a smart comment for that. But my focus was all on the male in front of me.

“I needed you to be open and relaxed.” Cannon saw my disbelief and he raised his hands. “I appreciate that it was probably stupid.”

“Probably?”

“Fine, it was stupid.” He looked at Kris. The look was one of expectation, and I gave my brother my full attention.

“This was your idea?” Pointing at Cannon, I knew my voice had risen. “Him? Him I expect this crap from! You…”

“You needed to be relaxed?—”

“Both of you get out.”

“Are you going to listen to us?” Kris demanded, getting to his feet.

“Like you listened to me?” Kris dipped his head, and I opened the bedroom door. “Out, both of you.”

“This is my room,” Cannon murmured as he walked past me.

“Tough. You’ve pissed me off. Stay away before I lose it completely.”

“Kez…”

“Save it, Kris. I don’t want to hear it from either of you.”

When the door was firmly closed behind them, I shook my head in disbelief. Just what I needed, my mate and my brother to be cut from the same cloth and be in cahoots with each other.

Glancing upwards, I sent a look of reprimand to the ceiling and the Goddess beyond. “Just once, I would like a break. Just once.”

The ceiling didn’t answer, and neither did the Goddess.

Typical.

CHAPTER 18

Cannon

“I guess she’s right to be annoyed with us.” I looked at Kris with expectation. “After all, it does seem like a crazy idea when you say it out loud.”

“You saying you learned nothing from it?”

“I’m saying that it wasn’t worth the price.” Looking over my shoulder to my bedroom door, I turned back to Kris with a raised eyebrow. “I really wanted to sleep in bed with my mate tonight.”

Kris grinned as he walked away towards the bedroom where his own mate slept. “You’re mated to my sister. Trust me, this won’t be the first night that you spend locked out of your bedroom.”

The door closed behind him as he walked into his bedroom, leaving me in the hallway, alone. Glancing at my bedroom door, I thought about knocking, but in the end, I opted to go downstairs. If I was honest with myself, I understood where Kezia’s temper had come from. The idea to get her to open up and talk about the last few weeks with Landon had been Kris’s idea, and I knew she had held back from telling me it all, but the way we had gotten her to open up…yeah, I’d be pissed too.

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