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“You found me,” she said.

“Always, baby girl.”

They looked into each other’s eyes, smiling, then Maggie frowned.

“We need to call Harcourt. There’s a body upstairs,” she said.

“Shit,” Soren said softly. “Good thing she’s already on her way.”

Maggie turned to face the two bleeding Alphas restrained at the bottom of the stairs. She opened her mouth to say something, then seemed to change her mind. “Not worth it,” she said.

Once the cops and ambulances showed up, it was absolute chaos. It was well past midnight. Lights flashed from dozens of police cars, two of which took Todd and Paul away. Soren had assured us they would not be released on bail anytime soon. Maggie stayed with Greta, holding her shaking hands, until paramedics took them both for evaluation.

Maggie sat in my lap in the back of the ambulance while the paramedic checked her over. She kept leaning back into me and taking deep inhales of my scent.

“It’s so not fair that your scent is Omega sedative,” Ben grumbled.

Lachlan wrapped his arms around Ben’s waist. “It’s what Maggie needs right now, love. We will have plenty of time to cuddle her at home. Patience,” he said and kissed his neck. Bensquirmed, but he was smiling.

“About time,” I said under my breath. I’d known Ben was pining after Lachlan forever, even if Lachlan himself was oblivious and Ben refused to talk about it. It seemed Maggie had been the catalyst to finally bring them together.

Maggie’s scent intensified a bit as she watched her two Alphas share a kiss, and I felt her squeeze her legs together. Her heart rate spiked on the monitor.

“Quit with the PDA, you’re working up our girl after a very traumatic event,” I said.

“Lucas,” Maggie whispered and blushed. She looked over at the paramedic, who was reading her blood pressure, meaningfully.

“I’m almost done,” the woman said, chuckling slightly. “You have a concussion, but no other major injuries. I think I can let you go home. You all just need to watch her. If the headache gets worse or she starts vomiting, she’ll need to go to the hospital.”

“Of course,” I said, and Lachlan nodded in agreement.

Soren jogged up to us as the paramedic moved away. “What’s the verdict?”

“She said I can go home,” Maggie replied quickly. “What did the captain say?”

Soren grimaced. “It’s gonna be a pain in the ass, baby girl. You’ll have to go in for a formal interview soon to give all the details. But for now, we can go home.”

Maggie rode in my lap on the way back to the house. Lachlan hadn’t wanted to let her.

“What if we get in an accident? She’s already got a concussion,” he had said.

But Maggie and Ben got him to agree by pouting until he caved.

I traced slow circles on her back while we drove. Her tension slowly melted as we got further from the warehouse and closer to our home.

“You awake?” I asked in her ear.

She nodded sleepily.

“I just wanted to circle back to my terribly-timed declaration of love,” I said, knowing it would make her smile. She huffed a soft laugh into my chest.

“It was such bad timing,” she murmured.

“Let’s try again. I love you,” I whispered.

“I love you, too,” she replied and finally dozed off on my shoulder.

Chapter 46

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