When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 129

Chapter 129

Alpha Emris.

Contd.

Then reaches into his breast pocket and produces a white handkerchief to wipe his hand patiently. This bastard with a set of bastard eyes hasn’t stopped looking at me

“Nobody touches Regan. Nobody enters the circle!”

The gammas nearest to my brother freeze where they are without a secondary order. Regan is on the ground, breathing. furious…but alive.

“People of the Covenant Pack. I am Lake Covenant. Son of Jacob Covenant, who was brother to Kael. I am the heir to the Alpha seat and I am here to reclaim what is mine.”

Everyone looks at each other. The handful of press…guests, elders who probably agreed to bury this for my father confirm it with their silence.

“Push the guests back!” I order, and the gammas move immediately creating distance between the crowd and the open ground between me and Lake. Meters of it. As much as the landscape allows. I don’t know how many people he brought with him tonight, I don’t know if this is the whole play or the opening move of something larger, and until I know both of those things every civilian in this building is a potential variable I cannot afford.

I also cannot afford for this to be a decoy. What if this is just a distraction to take my kids or something worse.

“The kids are safe.” The whisper comes from the Zeta I sent. “They’re being transported out of the pack house as we speak. Heading to the safe house.”

“Follow them. Recruit only exclusive Zetas to guard.”

“Yes, Alpha.” Gone.

I raise my eyes across the circle and watch Slade come forward from the left flank with his gammas fanning out around him in a tight arc, moving with a coordinated aggression of a unit that has run this drill before.

“GAMMAS, FOCUS!”

They stamp in unison, and the sound hits the ground structurally. Lake glances over his shoulder at the sound and I recognize the expression on his face because I have worn it myself. The look of a wolf who believes the people around are performing for an audience rather than posing a genuine threat.

He’s measuring us.

I’ve never been measured before. That’s it-

“Demetra. You’re leaving. Go with Teddy, mom, go with the others. Now.”

“I’m not leaving you–

“Please!”

“EMRIS.”

Lake yells my name and canines fuck out of his mouth. They are silver, not mu

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of a direct L

an ineage that I have only ever read about in pack history documents that my father kept in a locked cabinet.

He’s the real thing

If it is a fight you want. I will give it to you. If it’s death you want, I can give you that too”

He smiles. “We’re practically brothers, Emris. Why would you kill me?”

I squint fuckery at him!

“Besides, If you wanna kill someone…it should be this one.”

He points at Silver who is still on the ground, gasping from the gash in his chest and I squint harder.

“What you didn’t know he’s sleeping with your Luna?”

The ground doesn’t move but something in my chest does.

I start to turn on instinct…to Demetra but Lake snaps his fingers.

“Not the pretty one. The other one. The one who gave birth to Milo. If you didn’t know he was sleeping with your first Luna then you probably don’t know that the boy you call your son…”

isn’t yours”

Isn’t yours.

isn’t yours

isn’t your son.

Layers. What he says lands in layers, one after the other, like something being dismantled from the top down. I feel my senses go one by one. The perimeter alerts, Silver’s frequency….I lose it all until there is nothing left but those three words sitting in the center of my skull, and the…DARK

All of a sudden, darkness cats every light in the pack house… the sconces, every security panel, the string lights in the trees die at once

Complete darkness under an open sky, I feel wind move past my left side.

I spin and reach back in the same motion, hand out, reaching for Demetra-\

She’s not there.

The space where she was is just air.

DEME TRAAAE

I grow in stutter

Quakh. I swuch to night vision and the world comes back in high contrast, everything sharp and bleached and wron because my eyes are full slus instead.

rough me so fast I can separate them

I yell again buur she

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of my pack on my ground, looked me in the face, and took my mate.

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