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“He’s in heat. He doesn’t want to marry you, not really,” Indigo laughed. “He wants you to dick him down like you’re going to spend forever doing it.”
“Eww…” I shook my head. “How about we stop this conversation too. If anyone’s getting dicked down, it’s one of us and I don’t want to imagine him –”
“Who else is there?” Ambry asked, trying to get the conversation back on track.
“Plenty of people but no one I’m going to call while I’m here,” Teal shook his head. “And now we don’t use the flight link for that sort of business.”
“Won’t they figure you’ll lay low with your family?” Indigo asked.
“Indigo, they’re my family too,” Teal frowned. “They’re as Moonscale as any of us are. They’re working on the same things that I am. We’re all---”
“Maybe it’s time to come clean to Grandpa. It’s starting to get serious.”
“I don’t know if people will support it the same if—” Teal sighed.
“When it’s not a secret club?” Cobalt arched a brow.
“They will. It’s not like we’re planning a coup,” Indigo cut in. “You’re not are you?”
“Of course not!” Teal said, his expression falling into a look I’d never seen him wear before. “That you think I’d hurt our family --- Do you even know me? I know you two are all wrapped up together and I’m off working but--- Are we even still us?” He took a step toward the window and this time neither of them said anything.
“You are still you guys,” I said before he opened it up. “They’re afraid,” I spoke without looking at the others. Maybe this was a betrayal of my mate’s emotions, but I had to say something before everything fell apart. “They’re afraid that something’s going to happen to someone they care about and that includes you. They’re willing to tear down what you’re working on if it means keeping you safe.”
“No one’s safe if anyone is struggling to make things okay,” Teal said.
“I agree. They agree too. Fear makes your head funny. Believe me because I’m the guy who would know.”
“How are you so calm about this?” Teal asked.
“I’m good when the world explodes. In a few days when the ashes settle down and I know an ember isn’t about to send something else up in a flame, I’ll probably melt down into messy emotional goo but for tonight, I’m good. Now can we all go to bed? I’d like to have the feast we came here for and if you run off, I don’t think it’ll be tomorrow.”
Teal nodded, closed the blinds and pulled his shirt off over his head. Indigo gave him a one-armed hug, but Teal flopped down on a sofa on the other side of the room as if the last thing he wanted was to be touched by anyone here. If the rumors were true, I’d do whatever I needed to ensure that Cobalt had Teal’s back when the time came.
“Don’t even think about it too loudly,” Teal grumbled from the sofa. “Even the walls have giant ears in this house.”
“We love you too,” Indigo said, crawling into bed behind Ambry.
A second later, Cobalt unbuttoned his shirt and crawled in with us. Guardie sniffed his feet and then licked my toes as if giving his approval. Cobalt wrapped his arm around my middle with his big, protective hand over my stomach and I patted around the dark bed until I found Ambry’s hand. Someday soon Teal’s mate would be here too. Then everyone would calm down. It wouldn’t feel like we were on such an uneven seesaw then but not even Guardie could hurry up time and make fate get off its lazy butt.
“I love you,” I murmured to the room and Cobalt kissed my cheek as I let sleep pull me under. Almost getting blown up was hard work.
Come morning, I woke with my head on the firm, muscular chest of an alpha. Only, it wasn’t my alpha. It was Indigo. Hisheartbeat whispered that he was still out cold as I blinked my eyes open. How’d he get between me and Ambry? Where was Cobalt? Where was my mate and why didn’t he tell me he was leaving?
A quick glance across the room at the empty sofa told me exactly where he’d ran off to. Irritation danced under my skin but I let it go. I shut my eyes and pretended sleep. Whatever dragged them off this time of morning better have been worth it.
“Shhh…” Indigo whispered in his sleep and kissed the top of my head. “Safe. You’re safe.”
I snuggled down against his side and tried not to worry about Cobalt and Teal too much. Only that was impossible. We were just starting our lives together. Why would he risk everything now? I wouldn’t survive losing another person.
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Cobalt
“He’s fine and you didn’t have to come with me,” Teal said, killing the engine as he pulled his pickup truck behind what looked to be an abandoned warehouse. It wasn’t empty and most of the disrepair was glamor to keep the looky-loos away. “I probably would’ve preferred if you didn’t. Indi is never going to let me hear the end of this.”
“You accused us of not having your back. Of course, I’m here. If you would’ve spoken up before about needing help, I’d have been here sooner,” I pointed out as I unfastened my seatbelt. “We thought you were all cool on your own. We thought you wanted space to do this thing and ---”
“I am okay on my own because I’m not on my own. I have friends. That doesn’t mean I wanted you two to ignore it and—I don’t know what I wanted you to do. Mostly, I want Indigo to leave it the hell alone, okay? Telling Clarence and Medwin – Clarence might just call it treason and even if he didn’t, I think it’d break Medwin’s heart that I didn’t tell him. Sometimes working things out for the better good means killing a golf course, okay? And sometimes it has to be your grandcarrier’s favorite golf course to prove to people that you’re serious about making things work.”
