When You Were My Mate (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 25

Chapter 25

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“Don’t you?” I whirl to face him. “He’s been your brother forever Is there nothing you saw? Him giving her special treatment? Her being in his room?”

“Emris never allowed anyone near his room. Even now, he doesn’t let you or the rest of us in. So how would I have known?”

Regan looks at me. Among all the brothers, he’s the one with the brown hair and the watchful gaze. I know him better than I know Emris at this point, even though I dated Emris. The last time I remember Emris being truly present for me was when I was pregnant… and the postpartum haze. After that? I can’t remember the last time he held my hand.

“How do you think I feel?” Regan hisses. “Knowing that bitch hit my mother and Emris told me to stand down? Just like how Slade hurt you, and he hasn’t done a thing to him yet. You think I’m not upset?”

He scoffs and walks over to sit on the couch by the window. I sink onto the edge of Milo’s rumpled bed.

I know what I’m thinking. And because Regan knows me…really knows me, I have to believe he can guess. He knows I have zero patience for things that make me jealous. For threats.

Like Luna Kate, who tried to undermine me last year. I wanted her punished, and Regan handled it. I told him to seduce her until they ended up in bed together, and her husband walked in. She thought Regan would bond with her after her husband rejected, but on my orders, he made sure she never saw him again. Or that stupid Alpha’s daughter who insulted me at the summer solstice. I sent Regan to ensure she wouldn’t have the teeth to do it again.

He gives me what I want. Slowly or quickly, he delivers.

“So,” he says, a slow smile spreads across his face. The corner of his lip twitches upward in a way that tells me he’s already on my side. “What do you want to do?”

I meet his dark eyes. “I want her face.”

“Her face? Hmm?” Regan prompts.

“That stupid face she put a mask on at the Alpha Fest. I want her to hide it for life. Claw her so badly, or send someone good enough for the job, that they mark her so deeply they’d have to stitch her lips together with the rest of her face.”

“You want it to be that bloody?”

“Yes. Forget Slade. I want her to pay for everything before tonight’s Alpha Fest.” I stand and walk toward him, stopping inches away. “I know you’ll do it for me,” I whisper directly into his ear before turning and walking out of Milo’s room.

As I go to find Milo, I can hear him complaining to his father in the hall.

“She did?” Emris says.

“Mommy is bad,” Milo pouts.

“Where’s your other shoe?” I see Emris crouch down to Milo’s level, rolling up his sleeves.

“Mommy has it.”

Milo immediately throws himself into a hug.

“Angry? Your birthday is coming soon, you know?” Emris says.

“I don’t want it.”

“You don’t want a birthday party? I’ll invite everyone from your school and buy you all the toys you want.”

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“Daddy, Daddy, can we invite Amira and her mom!” Milo startsjmping.

Emris sees me before he replies. “I don’t think Amira will come.

“Then I don’t want my birthday!”

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“Milo, that’s enough!” I yell. “You’re becoming so spoiled and stubborn! Why would we invite Amira? That stupid brat is below our pack…she and her damn slut mother who will spread er legs for anyone with a drop of Alpha blood!”

Milo bursts into tears again.

Emris rises to his feet in and his expression shifts into something dark and terrifying.

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