Page 6 of Blood Moon
“Don’t have to ask twice,” he said as he stood up. “Where’s the food?”
“In the Range Rover, dog,” Zac’s voice was more threatening than sweet. The vamp must’ve heard Zane and me arguing from the car. “You can make your own kibbles for you and your dog friends to eat. I bought three new bowls and three hundred pounds of dog food for you assholes to gorge yourselves on.”
“I can and will kick your ass.” Zane squared up to Zac, who was smirking to taunt the shifter.
“Please start this shit between us, so Elle gets pissed at you instead of me after I’m done burying your sorry-ass body in this stunning back yard.”
“Jesus Christ.” Val looked up at the two who were ready to go to blows, “Calm the fuck down, both of you. My God.” She looked back at me. “Use your littlequeen of the wolves and vampstalk and tell them all to beat it.”
“Well, you’re actually watching all this play out, so I don’t have to tell you how shitty all of this is getting,” I said.
She smiled at me, “Bond or no bond, I’ll never understand how you put up withsevenfucking assholes all at once. That’s more of a miracle than me coming back from the dead.” She leaned back in the lounge chair she took from Zane.
“I can’t.” I sighed in defeat. “Like I said, it was fine before. Hell, the guys would’ve probably fucked each other if I told them to. Everything was perfect until recently.”
“Zac had Cole on speaker in the car. I heard you guys think this all is revolving around Aria after she shifted and started maturing mentally at a fast rate?”
“Yes,” I answered. “That’s what we’re piecing together anyway. The guys saw it all much sooner, though, but lately, everything has been changing at the speed of light around here.”
“Shit.” Val rubbed her forehead. “Where’s the little angel, anyway?”
“Sleeping.”
“Naptime?” She arched an eyebrow at me.
“If she doesn’t take one, she turns into a little hellion. She’s impossible to control even when the guys give her everything she wants, much less when she’s moody without a nap.”
“Her little wolf-legs are growing,” Val smirked. “How is it that out of all the powerful genes you carried while Zane knocked you up, the one gene she gets that’s dominant is the shifter gene?”
“We all thought it was cute in the beginning.”
“It still is cute. I’m giving you a hard time.” She grinned. “But, damn, you do seem very stressed out.”
“It’s because of everything going haywire on us. Now, I get the pleasure of feeling like a whore again because all seven of these assholes are territorial again? I hate it.”
I saw Val’s face grow sympathetic. “Hey, at least they’re seven hot mother fuckers and not some lanky creeps. I’d fuck seven hotties like that with no reservations,” she said with a wink.
I dropped my face in my hands. “You can have all of them,” I said, my voice muffled through my hands. “Swear to God, if one more of these assholes taunts any of the other ones around here, I’m turning myself in to Enzo and letting Lucifer end us all at once.”
“Wait.” Val looked at me mysteriously as her eyes glazed over. “The Gemini twins. Enzo’s twins. They’re growing like Aria is. This is connected, but why couldn’t I seethatpart out of everything?”
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Istared at Val in disbelief for what seemed like forever before I could find my voice and speak.
“What the hell are you talking about?” I asked. “How is this connected?”
“Well, it’s a vision I had. I saw that Enzo had sent his twins off to their private school—pretty much monitored by every one of his asshole soldiers—after the twins started taking power from him and your mom.”
“You saw that shit and didn’t think to let us in on it?” Cole asked, walking outside.
“Obviously,youdidn’t get the same hint that the other douche idiots out here got a few minutes ago,” Val snapped at Cole. “They left so that Elle and I could talk.”
“I’m the one who sent for you to give us answers. Now, spill it. Why the fuck wouldn’t you tell us?”
“Honestly, I saw that because it was actually important. Seers are revealed only the things that could affect innocent supernaturals. The Gemini twins stealing the most powerful vamp and his Life Blood’s juice was of greater importance than you idiots being jealous over who gets to screw Elle tonight.”
“Be fucking serious, Val,” Cole said. “You can’t answer me because you don’t have a damn answer.”
