Lisa shook her head, “No, he did smell good to me.” Freya growled, “She’s lying. Her wolf is new, but she told me that she realized Lisa was lying after the fact. She’s not telling me how though.” I mean… her wolf was in her head with access to her thoughts. Poor thing.
I rolled my eyes, “Yeah well, your wolf told mine you’re lying. So… blackmail time. You either leave Keaton and Katie alone… or I’ll tell everyone you lied. That your wolf told mine the truth. Then their wolves could ask yours and you’d be exposed. You are pretty vain so I’m guessing you don’t want that.”
Lisa glared at me and tried to slap me. I grabbed her hand and twisted it behind her back. I laughed, “You so can’t take me on… that was sad… do you train at all? I’m guessing no. To tell Xander you tried to slap me or not… hmmm… decisions.”
That had me thinking about my yummy husband. He was so delicious. Freya agreed, “He is.” I turned to Kingsley asking, “Was I this obnoxious when I was eighteen?” Kingsley answered, “You have never been this obnoxious. We need to go because Kayda desperately wants to kill her. She’s on edge. I’ll need to go with H and shift later.” Blade laughed.
I let Lisa go saying, “Remember to leave them both alone. I said what I said.” Lisa rubbed her wrist but didn’t answer. I snarked, “Hello? I’m talking to you. Answer me…. please.” Lisa gritted her teeth, “Fine, I’ll leave them alone.”
I patted her head and spoke like I was talking to a baby, “What a good girl! That’s such a smart decision… I don’t actually have much faith you’ll keep your word… but that’s ok. I kind of excel at killing people.” Lisa looked like a ghost at this point. She should see a doctor.
I turned and grabbed Kingsley yelling, “This didn’t count, Blade! It was a detour in the game for a noble cause. So young love could blossom… I think… I’m pretty sure anyway!” Keaton acted like Katie was his mate… so she probably was.
I was on a noble quest for mate love. Blade was laughing pretty hard when Kingsley and I went through the holoport. We passed around Kingsley’s phone through the whole group. Kingsley was laughing really hard… and as a whole the group was all having so much fun.
I linked Mason, “Why did you let them catch you?” Mason replied, “Sometimes you have to take pity on people.” I disagreed, “Uhhh no… pity wins are no fun… they are actually upsetting.” Mason replied laughing, but I was serious.
Finally, I decided to end the game when I saw Xander sitting with his eyes closed. I wanted to jump in his lap, so I did. Xander and I were kissing when Jason complained about it. I linked him, “Not cool… be cool.” Jason snorted, “I’m not cool?! You’re dry humping my best friend!”
I replied, “Ummm I’m married to him, so… it’s clearly cool. You obviously do the same with one of my best friends… and I don’t say anything about that.” Jason groaned. Adeline linked, “Get it girl!” I replied, “You came to my party!” Adeline laughed, “I was always a staple figure at your parties.” That was true.
Adeline was right… it was my birthday, so I should get it. Freya agreed, “Definitely.” Eventually, I did pull apart from my sexy mate. It seemed all for nothing because everyone had boring questions. I answered them though.
We moved onto the Resistance, so I somewhat loosely explained it. Everly asked a question. I was proud I didn’t wince or snark back at her. I just answered her. Look at how mature I am. Freya linked, “Drunk. You are drunk.” Yes… but drunk me was kind of mean sometimes… and Everly and I had been so cool lately.
That brought us to the fact that I’d hacked Jason’s phone. I just obviously wasn’t the only one. Someone else had too and it messed with mine. Or there was magic in case I did hack his phone, so I wouldn’t know my family was still alive.
Nope I was not thinking about that or my head would hurt. Which brought us to Valdoma. I squeezed Paige’s hand. I knew it hurt her to discuss that vile dark Witch. Freya snarled in my head. Valdoma and Paige had battled before, but when they first met Valdoma was kind and nice to Paige.
Then something flipped. I still didn’t know what had happened other than Valdoma was just evil. My theory was she realized that Paige wasn’t going to turn dark… and join the side of her evil relative… who should be dead… but drank Vampire blood to avert that.
Micah wanted to understand his watch. Understand? Didn’t he already figure it out? It wasn’t too complicated. Well… it was complicated, but Micah could figure it out. Freya snorted, “Tell everyone the name.” I gasped, “No!”
Freya sighed, “Mate will love the name.” I mean… I never thought he’d find out… which… the name was perfect, but people made fun of it. I snapped out it when everyone wanted theirs. OHHH! I could just pass them out.
Tank linked, “Do I get a watch?” I squealed, “You came too?! Is Ziggy here?” Tank answered, “Yes.” I replied, “You both have watches… so… the answer was yes. I can answer a question…. in a straightforward fashion.” Tank laughed, “Eventually you can. If you want to that is.” That was true.
I ran to the lab and picked up my duffle bag. I was back in a flash. I told Freya, “Get it?” Freya snickered, “You are so drunk.” I mean I was like a superhero. I snickered to myself. Freya said, “Oh good lord. We are a goddess, not a comic character.” I retorted, “We could be both. How cool is that?” Freya laughed in our connection.
I gave everyone their watches. I didn’t want to dwell on why some people were looking at me with pity and intrigue. What was there to pity today? I had a party and I was drunk. Freya explained, “You forgot about the presents.”
I asked, “What presents?” Freya snorted, “You know what? I’ll tell you later.” I replied, “Whatever you say, all knowing secret keeping for good reasons, wolf of mine. That sounds like a good time… everyone seemed to like the watches… which was the goal.”
I noticed my aunts were here. Freya said, “You didn’t used to call them that.” Well… they were my aunts though… we were just close in age. That’s right, they wanted to cook! I grabbed them and ran into the kitchen.
I started grabbing ingredients and handed Melinda a bowl. MaryBeth asked, “What do I do?” I snickered, “You wait until Melinda has put all the ingredients in then you are going to stir.” MaryBeth huffed, “Oh come on! I can do something.”
I cackled and said, “Maybe… but you tried to boil breaded chicken once.” MaryBeth sighed, “You all are just never going to let that go. Dane thought it was adorable. Melinda catches things on fire in the kitchen all the time!”
I said, “Uhh, duh Dane thinks it’s adorable… he’s your mate. That’s not a good case study pool because he thinks everything you do is adorable. Melinda… does not catch things on fire… just once.” Melinda asked, “How do you know about that?” I whispered, “It’s my thing.” They both smiled.
I filled the silence, “So, what did I miss when I was not here? I mean… I probably know more than you think… but I clearly some missed things.” Melinda answered, “You actually missed quite a bit. For starters, our mating ceremonies.”
MaryBeth sighed, “We were pretty pissed about the fake you declining our invitations.” I told her, “That’s fair… she sucked. Pretty sure she’s dead. I feel like Elise told me that. On the plus side… I only half missed those. The film quality was grainy, and I could only see you and Landon.”
“Then for MaryBeth’s I could only see her and Dane… that was a choice though… because hers was in Red Run… and it hurt seeing everyone act like everything was normal when my whole life changed… so… it was a bad choice, which I know now… so… there’s that.”
“It’s annoying….is what that choice was…but at the time… it felt like great personal growth on my part… to not stare at people who forgot me and continued to be fine. So… everyone was making choices…that magic did not help us out with.”
