His Moonsilver Mate (Abby and Kade) novel Chapter 32

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1:53 pm

Chapter 32

Rade

Sloane’s words had been following me all morning.

You’re trying so hard to protect her that you’re making it obvious she’s special

I had changed two guard rotations before lunch, sent Ryan back over the patrol routes, and rechecked every entrance to the family wing.

None of it made me feel better.

Every solution seemed to create another weakness.

Then I heard Abby laugh.

I stopped outside the sitting room.

It was the first real laugh I had heard from her since dinner.

For half a second, I just listened.

Then I stepped inside.

Noah’s arm was around her shoulders.

Knox surged forward.

Move him.

“Take your arm off her.”

The room went silent.

Abby’s smile disappeared.

“Kade.”

Noah removed his arm, but not quickly enough for Knox.

I stepped farther into the room.

Abby stood immediately.

“Stop.”

Noah got to his feet too.

“If you’re angry with me, be angry with me. Don’t take it out on Abby.”

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Justead, looked at him.

“What are you doing here?”.

His eyebrows rose.

“Visiting Abby.”

“I can see that.”

“Kade.”

Abby touched my arm.

I looked down at her.

“He’s my friend.”

“I know.”

“Then why are you acting like this?”

Because his arm had been around her.

Because she had been laughing with him when last night she had cried because of me.

Because somehow he had managed to make her look normal again for a few minutes.

None of those were reasons I had any right to use.

So I reached for the one that sounded better.

“This part of the house isn’t secure enough.”

Abby stared at me.

“What?”

“There are fewer guards on the first floor. Anyone coming through the main entrance can reach these rooms.”

Chloe folded her arms.

“Luna Cassandra brought us here.”

Of course she had.

“I’ll speak to her.”

Abby’s expression changed.

“You’re serious.”

“You should be upstairs.”

The second the words left my mouth, I knew I had made it worse.

Her face went flat.

“Go back to my room.”

“For now.”

“No.”

I frowned.

“Abby-”

“No. Don’t order me around.”

“I’m trying to keep you safe.”

“And apparently that means I’m not allowed to sit downstairs with my friends.”

“That isn’t what I said.”

“It’s exactly what you said.”

The room had gone painfully quiet.

I lowered my voice.

“You can see them later.”

“When?”

“When we know more.”

“About what?”

I couldn’t answer that with Chloe and Noah standing there.

Abby gave a short laugh.

“Right.”

“Abby.”

“I came home from being kidnapped, and suddenly I can’t go back to the clinic. I can’t run alone. I can’t shift

where anyone might see me. I can’t leave without telling someone.”

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Her eyes flashed.

“And now I can’t even sit in a room with Chloe and Noah because you decided this floor isn’t safe enough.”

“It isn’t permanent.

“That isn’t the point.”

Knox had finally stopped pushing.

Now all I could see was Abby standing in front of me, angry again because of something I had done.

“I’m not trying to punish you.”

“I know.”

Her voice softened for one second.

“That almost makes it worse.”

I stared at her.

“Everything is always for my safety.”

“It is.”

“Then why doesn’t any of it feel safe?”

That stopped me.

Abby shook her head.

“It feels like being locked up.”

“You’re not locked up.”

“Aren’t I?”

“You don’t need permission to leave your room.”

She gestured between us.

“You just walked in here and told me to go back upstairs.”

I had no answer to that.

Because she was right.

Noah shifted behind her.

“Kade, maybe-”

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“Stay out of it.”,

Abby spun toward me

“Don’t talk to him like that.”

Knox surged again.

“He had his arm around you.”

Silence.

Abby stared at me.

Chloe’s eyebrows went up.

Noah looked like he was trying not to react.

Limmediately regretted saying it aloud.

Abby’s expression slowly changed.

“So this is about Noah.”

“It’s about security.”

“And Noah.”

I said nothing.

Her disbelief turned to anger.

“You cannot be serious.”

“I don’t like him touching you.”

Noah let out a breath.

Abby turned on him.

“Do not laugh.”

“I’m not.”

“You are.”

For one second, even Chloe looked like she might smile.

Then Abby looked back at me.

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“Sloane might be carrying your-baby.”

The room went completely still.

Fuck.

Chloe’s face changed.

Noah stopped looking amused.

Abby realized what she had said a second too late.

“Kade-”

“It isn’t confirmed.”

Chloe stared at us.

“Sloane might be what?”

Abby closed her eyes briefly.

Then opened them again.

“That isn’t the point.”

“I know.”

“No, you don’t.”

She stepped away from me.

“You don’t get to stand here angry because my friend put his arm around me while another woman might be carrying your child.”

I felt every bit of anger drain out of me.

“You are my mate.”

Her face changed.

“I accepted your rejection.”

The words hit exactly where they always did.

“You don’t get to forget that when it’s convenient.”

I said nothing.

There was nothing I could say that would make that untrue.

Abby moved around the chair.

“I’m done.”

“Abby.”

“I’m going upstairs.”

The bitterness in her voice made the word sound worse than an insult.

“Since apparently that’s where I belong.”

She walked past me.

I almost reached for her.

Stopped before I touched her.

She didn’t look back.

The door slammed behind her.

Silence filled the room.

Knox gave me one word.

Idiot.

I rubbed a hand over my face.

Chloe sighed.

“That went well.”

I looked at her.

She didn’t seem particularly intimidated.

Noah picked up his jacket.

“We should go.”