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“No, I’m not hurt. I think those three are here to take Nezat back to…wherever he was imprisoned.” I told them what I’d seen in my head.

“Are the voices back?” Joshua asked.

“Not like it was before. I can’t hear everyone. Just snippets here and there.” I looked up at Joshua. “First, you can put me down. Second, how is your head?”

The noise inside the house stopped. I saw someone looking out the window. He crooked his finger. No fucking way was I going back inside.

“I’m going to see what he wants,” Delvin said.

“Are you nuts?” I asked. “Those are demons,” I said in a lower voice so our neighbors couldn’t hear me. “Why on earth would you voluntarily go inside?”

“I have to know what happened.” Delvin walked away, Mikhia and Jack joining him.

“If something happens to Delvin…” Joshua muttered.

I felt the same way. I wouldn’t be able to breathe again until Delvin was back by my side. I didn’t even protest that Joshua hadn’t put me down yet. I was too worried about Delvin.

When they finally returned, Delvin said, “He wanted to let us know that Nezat wouldn’t bother us again.” Delvin curled his lip. “He wasn’t too polite about it, and he has a very nasty attitude. Honestly, I’m surprised he even let us know.”

“I’m just glad they’re gone,” Jack said. “Sorry, Shane. That kitchen is destroyed. I hope you weren’t renting.”

I wasn’t. I owned that house, but I was going to sell. Delvin was right. We needed privacy that a house in town couldn’t give us. Especially when I had the baby. I hadn’t even asked at what age our child would be able to shift. I hadn’t asked any questions. But we definitely needed more space and privacy.

“Until we move you, you’re living with us,” Joshua said. “And to answer your question, my thick head is fine. A little sore, but no worse for wear. By the way, Delvin fired Janie. Just thought you should know.”

That was the furthest thing from my mind right now, but good riddance.

Joshua and Ken had already taken Casey away. Lucas and Mikhia were getting into their truck. Delvin and Joshua lived next door, so we didn’t have to drive anywhere, but I was still apprehensive, regardless of what that demon had said, sleeping next to my house.

But soon my mates made me push those thoughts aside. They pampered me all night, making love to me, helping me forget that psychotic scene in my kitchen.

Nezat was no longer a threat. It took me weeks for that to sink in, and then all my thoughts were centered on my growing belly and house hunting.

Chapter Ten

Four Years Later

Shane

“Don’t put that in your mouth.” I grabbed Emmett off the grass and pulled the weed from his tiny hand. He cried and tried to wrestle the weed from me then shifted into his tiny wolf form and nipped my finger. “I’m still not letting you eat this.”

“He eats everyfing,” Macey said with a roll of her eyes. “Boys are gross.”

“Don’t talk about your brother that way,” I scolded her. “He’s only one and is exploring the world around him.”

“That’s what Daddy said,” she replied. “He lets Emmett do what he wants.”

Yeah, I knew that. Joshua spoiled our kids rotten. Delvin was more the level-headed one, but ever since Macey had been born, she’d wrapped him around her little finger.

“Uncle Dillon and Uncle Casey are coming over today.”

She squealed so loudly that I thought my eardrums were blown. “That means Shayla is coming over and Markie.” She said it with all the excitement a four-year-old could muster. Which was a lot. Her black pigtails bounced as she did a happy dance, her dark blue eyes shining.

Shyla was Dillon’s four-year-old daughter, and Markie, short for Marcel, was Casey’s four-year-old son. They’d stuck to having one child, while I, idiot that I was, had had two. But I’d suffer through the nausea all over again because I loved both my children to pieces.

My parents had been ecstatic to become grandparents, although I’d told them my children were adopted. What else was I supposed to say? They’d looked at me in fear when they’d learned about my ability. I couldn’t imagine how they’d feel if they knew I’d given birth to two children. Luckily the kids were young enough that they were unaware of the lie, and my mom and dad had never said anything in front of them.

But today was just us mates. We were having a cookout, and I couldn't wait to see Dillon and Casey again. We’d become close since that night at my house when Nezat had tried to kill us. The threat of death would do that to some people. We’d talked on the phone constantly, and Dillon had shown up when I’d gone into labor, having gone through it himself a week before, and coached me through it, with Delvin and Joshua right there at my side.

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