When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 216

Chapter 216

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The car stops at the park house and the Gammas are lined up cutside in formation.

I see Jupiter and Creed the moment I step out and this is the moment. right here, right now where I decide who my face going to do for the rest of this. I hold my spine straight hold my chin level. Every exclusive Zeta in present they’ve been holding this pack together through the night and into the morning

It also means that inside is a war zone currently.

First thing I want to know is who allowed Lake into the pack!? It makes no sense, and I want to believe it’s a damn giral reason. It’s even worse when I spot a brown jeep that I suspect belongs to the Barbarian Pack in the comer of the grounds. ON my pack house grounds like it was invited, like the Black Covenant territory is somewhere anyone these bloody monsters can just park!

“Set that jeep on fire.” I say it quietly the first time. Creed looks at me to confirm he heard correctly. I look back at ham ani let him see that I mean every word.

“Set that jeep on fire. Now!”

“Yes, Luna.”

He orders the Deltas around, and I don’t wait to see it go up in flames. I pass the lines of Deltas, feeling Monroe right behind me as I enter the house. The moment I do, Wren sees me and her face looks so pale I don’t want to believe that Rachus is in

here too.

“Where are they?”

“In the pack meeting room. The elders are all-”

I don’t wait to hear the rest of it. I find my way there and Monroe gets there before me to open the door. The moment I step in, everyone becomes quiet but I lock eyes with Lake first who is seated around a table in the pack meeting room.

I stare at Radius right after. A large smile splits his face open when he sees me. I see the way he stares at my face, to my neck. down to my very chest and then he sniffs the air as if he hopes to catch a whiff of me.

“Radius.” Lake says. “Sit.”

“Monroe. Kill this bastard.” I say it without looking away from Radius.

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I feel Monroe get moving behind me to do as I have ordered but Silver stands in front of him as fast as he can.

“Demetra, wait! I want to end him too, but they are the only ones who know where my brother is. You kill him and that information goes with him. Please.”

I look at Silver for a long moment. I look at the scar across his shoulder from Emris’s claws and I remember what Emris did to him. I stare at his eyes…they look like he hasn’t slept for so long.

“Stand down.” I say it, and Radius chuckles.

“Wow.” He leans back. “Last time I saw the Luna, she was behind her Alpha. Now, she’s taking the reins of the pack-

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“Keep my daughter’s name out of your math

“Demetra” Lake gets up, putting authority in hut voce. In froes of the level

My hands find the teacup on the table. I fuel my wolf. The momere my hund dose and 1.5 Se combusts on his face with a speed he didn’t even see coming even if he was je berre away from the siege of what I can do next

“Who’s gonna explain why the Barbarian dog and the Lycan bastard are heren

The room is very quiet until one elder speaks.

“Everyone has heard what happened to the Alpha. They say his eyes went black”

“A black eye. A dark eye means a poisoned wolf”

I stare at them as the conversations swirl around me. It’s true. Emris’s eyes were black that tright b poisoned wolf?

Quickly, Wren pulls something out from in front of her that I look at and read quickdy.

A poisoned werewolf is a rare condition that only a handful of wolves in any generation encounter. When a wolf a poisoned at this level the heart blackens… disconnects from everything it once recognized. The wolf becomes

Everyone once loved becomes an enemy.

Everyone that used to be an enemy becomes a trusted place. A dark–eyed wolf is a beast. A claw–giver A tyrant operating without the architecture of who they were. The mate bond doesn’t just weaken the poison festers inside it and from the inside out.

“That’s not Emris.” I whisper.

“I told them the same thing!” Derisha yells. “My son who has beaten the slits and the trauma you Barana not gonna be poisoned!”

I look at her closely before looking back at Lake. If I put two and two together is she saying that-

zwed him is

“The Barbarian pack? You mother got the help of the Barbarian pack to capture Emris? It was these bastards that traumatized him when he was just a kid?”

Radius smiles instead. “It’s simply because of you, Lake, that I’m not making this place’s Luna sit on my cock and vaci If I hear one more insult-

“If I hear one more insult regarding our Luna! I will gut you and get the answers from your fucking daughter” Silver grow An explosive sound happens outside! One elder presses herself against the window to see what it was.

“Radius, you can leave” Lake says, touching the cut on his face from the teacup. ‘Ill speak to Demetra alone”

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“I’ll cut straight to it Every wolf in Mile room knows that no wolf with dark eyes has ever returned to who they were rabies for our kind… untreatable irreversibile and incurable. Emri: your mate now a beast living somewhere in the

territories and very soon the Acgis unit will be ordered to bring him down because he is a danger in every living thing West Virginia.”

“You did that to him!” I yell.

Lake exhales. “It’s what happens in war.”

“My brother gave you your war and you lost!” Silver growls. “Fair and square, he gave it to you. And every elder was there to watch you lose it. You lost it but of course, like a bastard, you couldn’t take your loss. You partiered with the Barbarians. You think somehow the elders of our pack are gonna take a coward if we had no Luna or heiress?”

“The elders are gonna accept that cause I know where Emris is. Also, I’m prepared to do everything in my power to get the Alpha seat.” Lake smiles. “It would be horrible if something happened to the heiress of the pack.”

My entire body burns with chills the moment I hear him say that.

“Demetra, I don’t wanna hurt your little girl or the little boy. But the Barbarian Alphas don’t listen especially if they don’t see me on the Alpha seat cause their support needs some payment that I have not paid yet. Therefore, this is my offer. Marry me, Demetra. Make me the Alpha and your daughter can still be the heiress of the pack. Also, you remain the Luna.”

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Right after hearing Lake say that, I only hear silence.

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I’m spending every moment in torment because I don’t know where my mate is. If he’s alright. If he’s hurt. If he’s broken as I

back am. If whatever the poison has done to him has taken him somewhere so far from himself that he can’t find his That’s all I can think about with tears rushing out of my eyes.

“Emris is broken already.” Lake’s voice is almost gentle. “It’s time for a new bond and that new bond is me. When we’re bonded, I’ll tell you what we did to him. I’ll tell you where he is.”

He moves something toward me on his phone. Silver is the one who pulls me closer and I see an image of Emris…asleep. I immediately take a closer look!

“Swipe.”

Silver does and the next image is a video of Emris. He’s still asleep, his chest rising and falling.

“So. What do you say?” Lake asks.

I take a closer look at Emris on the screen and then I walk away from everything.