When We Were Mates (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 249

Chapter 249

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“Wait, no.” Demetra says it just as I’m turning to leave her bedroom, already halfway to making sure Janet whatever her name is gets escorted off this property permanently.

“What?”

“I’ll speak to her.”

I walk back in slowly, and something about that sentence sits wrong in my chest. I recognize Janet cause I’v seen her before, years ago, a ghost from the pack house I never forgot. Demetra hasn’t. So how did she kno immediately that that was her mother?

“How did you know it was her?” I whisper, using my feet to shut the door closed. I see Demetra look somewhere else that isn’t me. That’s new. I’ve always been the one holding things back in this relationship. one with secrets buried three layers deep but right here, right now, she has something she’s not told me about.

“I met her. Back at Wolf Arts. I mean… I saw her.” Demetra exhales, turning around with her dress.

It’s an open back cut so low it’s criminal, I swear…something Cleopatra would wear to seduce an empire. The open back is held by thin golden chains stretched horizontally across each line and they all connect at her lower waist, where a small sun spot rests that I’ve kissed a hundred times rests.

Push it down just a little bit, and her ass is gonna be the next thing you see. See why I was pissed that fucking Tyson was right behind her. For all I know, that bastard could be looking down at her…taking in the view. Th way those chains draw the eye straight to the swell of her hips.

Every sequin on it makes twinkling sounds as it moves, making it hard to focus on the conversation we’re having. Demetra gets to the balcony of her bedroom, pokes her head out and walks back toward me.

“I didn’t know she was the one who gave birth to me. Not at first. She’s the one who recognized me-”

“You. Didn’t. Tell. Me.”

That’s what it sounds like when I’m trying to bring my brain back to what we’re talking about right now.

“Yeah, no shit.” She shrugs. “Of course I wouldn’t tell you, Emris.”

I just blink sternly.

“And the next time you saw her?” I say, because the lines are obvious. She’s got to have crossed paths with this woman more times than once to be this composed now.

“When I went to Laura’s place. Looking for you.” Demetra folds her arms and lifts a brow, like that detail alone is supposed to make me feel like garbage. It works.

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“Laura?”

“Their stepmom. I got introduced to her as Travis’s mom, back at Rockville. She’s not the biological mot either of them, but she’s the one currently married to the Crestville Alpha.”

I fold my arms too.

“I just wanna know what she wants!” Demetra yells and I watch the pulse in her throat shift erratically. “Tr sick of being tormented by the idea that I have a mother. I can’t even call her that, you know? Even evil w don’t leave their pups behind. When I gave birth to Amira, that was the moment I understood exactly ho terrible a person you’d have to be to do what she did. I would have died before I let anyone rip Amira ou my arms. And then there’s her. Someone who looked at me and decided I wasn’t worth keeping. I hate he

“Got it. I can make sure she never sets foot in West Virginia again.” I say it and mean it.

Demetra looks at me with a pale face, rubbing her fingers together and pacing her room over twenty time already.

“Right now, I just want to know what she’s so desperate to tell me.”

“It won’t matter.” I shake my head. “It’s not gonna change anything, and I don’t want you to get worked up because of a denominator that doesn’t matter. For all we know, Janet already knew you were gonna be here What I don’t understand is why she abandoned you in the pack house when she knew you were Ronin’s daughter.”

“Emris.” Demetra says like I’ve got it all wrong and I wait to understand.

“What?”

“Nothing.”

“Say it.”

I want to go talk to her. I know Dad’s going to try to run her off the second he gets the chance. Can we talk about this later?”

“I’m not letting you leave this room until your heart rate comes down to something I can actually live with.” I say it, and I hear her scoff before I’m even done speaking.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you were Doctor Jasmine.” Demetra throws her hand up. “Didn’t know you went to medical school for what, eight years? Didn’t know your day and night job was patient care.”

“Of course, you didn’t know.” Is smile. “But know this much, I’m your mate. The first to know you were carrying our pup, before you even suspected it yourself. Jasmine needs her instrument to check my kid’s heartbeat. However, I can practically feel your pulse right now, flying, unstable, refusing to settle. I need those numbers down before you go anywhere, so we’re going to sit here a minute-”

“Emris, don’t fucking baby me! We don’t have time!”

“Demetra, shut up and stop cursing.” I shut the door and take the key.

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She watches me take the key.

“And sit.” I point at the chair.

“Excuse me!? Make me.”

I slowly walk up to her to “make” her, giving her every chance to make good on that but before I even get close enough to put a hand on her, she drops onto the couch, arms crossed and eyes narrowed into something that looks unnervingly like Amira’s when she’s about to throw a tantrum.

I turn around to take the other seat, hearing her whisper something that has to do with being a bully.

“So what, I’m just supposed to sit here and stare at you while I wait? Are you even aware that you’re part of reason I’m stressed in the first place?”

When I sit, I lean my elbows on my knees and stare back at her.

“Mrs Covenant, I’m sorry that I stress you. I mean that. I do plan to make this pregnancy as easy for you as can…. easier than easy, if that’s even a thing. When we get home, we have a lot to talk about, starting with everything you want and need from me, no matter how small it seems. Believe me, I wanna do everything my power to make sure you’re happy through this. That’s why I decided to tell you about the Sahara in the first place-”

Demetra rolls her eyes at me, and I try not to bring it up anymore. Like I said… I’m practicing patience, practicing control. I’m about to be a father to three kids, and arguing with a pregnant she–wolf in a way that spikes her heart rate isn’t something I’m going to let myself be known for.

This is hard, messy, but I think I can fix it.

“I can literally see the veins on your forehead right now, Emris. Anyone could’ve told you were about to split Tyson open like a fruit. You’re upset that Tyson had his arms around me, weren’t you? So…now di you understand exactly how I feel with Laura hovering around you every single day. Making her Delta when YOU KNOW she still has feelings for you! You think prepping the nursery for our baby is supposed to make that okay? I want Laura out of the pack house. I don’t want her as Delta, I don’t want her running the shelter, I don’t want her holding any position that puts us!”

“Okay.” I give in.

Demetra stares at me like she’s waiting for the catch.

“Okay.” I say again.

“So now you’re going to actually do it!? I’m sick!” Demetra pushes up off the couch, and I rise with her. mirroring the movement without thinking.

I swear I’m scared of her at this moment.

“Emris, I’m sick that you didn’t think this was something you were already supposed to do. Do I really have to be a pregnant Luna with a heart rate you’re monitoring like a lab result before you finally move Laura away from my side?”

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“You didn’t let me finish last night-”

“Because I don’t want to know! Because whatever it is, it just means you’re putting your family second-”

“Don’t say that. Everything I do is because of you.” I say it with acute, defeated stress in my voice as I kiss h lips unconsciously. I swear I didn’t even think, my wolf just grabbed a bite since she was so close.

Now, something about the softness of her lips, exactly the way I remember them, exactly the way I’ve know them for years… the taste of her tongue, sweet like something meant to be bitten into slow. I’ve missed her Moons, I’ve missed us, just being us, without all this wreckage sitting between us like a wall neither of us bu

on purpose.

“Do you honestly think I’d keep Laura around for no reason at all? Demi…don’t you dare look anywhere els right now. Look at me.”

I pull her wrist close, and she silently looks into my eyes.

“You, Amira, and Milo are everything I have. Without you three, I’m practically nothing. You’re my emotion Baby, give me one week, and this whole thing will be nothing but a bad memory. All we’re going to rememb is how thoroughly I punished every single wolf who had a hand in what happened to this pack. Then we’re going to be too busy welcoming our little-” I place my hand against her flat belly, and the only word that surfaces in my head is “grape.”

“Grape?” Demetra repeats it back with a stifled chuckle.

“Her heartbeats about the size of a grape right now.” I smile and caress.

“Her?”

“I told you it’s a girl.” I look into Demi’s eyes, and she smiles. Knowing I’m gonna be in a whole lot of mess once it’s a pack house full of she–wolves, she’ll have an army to completely destroy me. One strategically- timed pout at a time.

“One week, and you’ll handle whatever this is?”

“Yes.”

“And Laura…what’s her punishment, Emris?”

“First, the pack strike. Then I’m having her and Ariadne transported to the worst prison in existence.” “Tatanos?” She whispers, and I squint. How did she know? Maybe Monroe let it out.

“Yes.”

“Laura’s father is an Alpha…what if-”

“His daughter is a criminal, and she’s going to serve her sentence like one. Crestville means nothing to me. Her being Trybrid means nothing to me. So mate, my only, true mate…give this Alpha one week to clean up this mess.” I brush a strand of hair behind her ear, and Demetra’s hand finds my check, resting there like she’s missed the weight of me the way I’ve spent every night hoping she has.

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I know exactly how badly last night argument wrecked her. I press a kiss to her fingers where they touch my face, murmur an apology against her knuckles, kiss my way down to her hand before dragging my mouth back up to hers. And when I kiss her, it’s not gentle. It’s hungry, both of us equally starved for it, until she p back just far enough to breathe out-

“I didn’t tell you you could kiss me, Alpha.”

I laugh against the corner of her mouth, kissing it anyway. “Look at that. Your heart rate’s coming down. Ou little grape must be happy mom and dad are back on the same page.”

I push my tongue into her mouth and my hands hug the whole of Demetra’s body until it’s just the sound o our kissing.

Kissing like we’ve got three months‘ worth of missing each other to make up for.

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