And Then There Were Four

"Right." She laughed. "Whatever you have to tell yourself."

She was quick to go back to what she was doing, her figure pacing around the room as I watched her. She had reached out to someone, but I wasn't sure who the hell it was. There was something about her I loved and couldn't get over, and the realization I didn't know what it was frustrated me.

"What are you doing?" I asked, watching as she waved her hands up and down Lucas' body as if she was doing witchcraft or something.

"Do you always ask this many questions?"

Taken back by her response, I stood there for a moment. "Excuse me?

Trixie sighed with annoyance as she turned towards me, placing her hands on her hips. No matter how sweet and bubbly this girl was, I could see behind the front she had a fiery attitude which was not something you wanted to mess with.

She proved that when she quickly put Lucas in his place before he could do something to Cassie or me. Even though she wasn't a shifter, I had to admire her for her strong-willed nature. "You heard me, Pollux."

Pollux? No one here called me by my first name but Cassie, and yet the moment this woman said my name, I felt my balls tighten with anticipation.

"Look, just tell me what the plan is. I don't want to argue." Changing my tone with her, she smiled brightly before a knock came at the door. Trixie didn't look surprised by it, and in fact, got excited as she quickly answered the door. "Sansa!" She squealed excitedly as the light-skinned girl entered the room. Her eyes fell on me and then darted toward Trixie with a raised brow as if she was unsure of what she walked into.

"I was going to ask why you were in here with Lucas, but seeing Pollux is in here as well, I want to remind you I'm not up for group orgies-"

"Oh my god, no!" I quickly exclaimed, cutting the woman off causing her and Trixie to laugh at my outburst.

"Calm down, Lux... I'm only teasing," Sansa replied as she walked toward the bed, pulling a brown satchel from her shoulder and setting it down. "So, we need to strip his mind of darkness... sounds like fun."

I wasn't sure what she was talking about, but Trixie walked around to the other side of the bed, looking down at Lucas with a quizzical glare that made me slightly uncomfortable. "You know, for an asshole, he is attractive." "Yeah," Sansa sighed looking at Lucas as well, "Cassie definitely got a keeper."

Scoffing, I rolled my eyes, pulling both of their attention toward me. "Can we get to what we need to do, please? I have other places I'd rather be."

"Are you jealous, Pollux?" Trixie asked me as she slowly made her way from the bed toward me. "Do you not like me making comments about other men?"

I was frozen in place, unsure of what to say. The primal dominant in me wanted to put her in her place and show he who she belonged to and who was in charge. But the other part of me refused to break down from the expectations I had upon myself since youth.

I was an Alpha with a pack to protect.

I couldn't have weaknesses within my reign, or my pack would fall and I would fail.

Taking a deep breath through my mouth, trying to not let her amazing aroma of jasmine and honey flood my senses, I shook my head and kept a calm neutral expression. "Why would I be jealous over you, Trixie? There is no reason." Sansa quickly snapped up from where she had been bent over, and a fire in her eyes showed how angry she was at that moment. "Who the fuck do you think you are speaking to her like that?"

Trixie quickly glanced over her

shoulder, shaking her head at Sansa for her outburst. Something I hadn't been expecting her to do. "It's okay, Sansa. I'm not bothered by what he has to say. In fact, the pain of the mate bond only affects him. So if this is what he wants, I'm fine with that."

Hearing her reply to the situation gripped my heart and twisted my stomach. How could she think that? She should be enraged!

"Nice to know you don't care. Makes things easier," I snapped at her, but instead of her being hurt by my outburst, she simply laughed and walked over to the bed as if everything that happened just then between us meant nothing.

"Sansa, are you ready to wake dear Lucas?" she asked her friend, my presence quickly put into the background as the two women got ready to do whatever witchy shit Sansa had planned.

"Sure am... now, if only I didn't have to worry about another dick in the room... not that I can promise this won't backfire and take another man for payment."

Her eyes darted toward me with amusement as I tried to understand what she meant. There was no use in the end, though, because before I could open my lips, she placed her hands on the side of Lucas' head, and she spoke the words to set him free. "Come forth from darkness, and fill the light-"

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her first bit of words went by in a flash, and with a blinding white light that lit the room, Lucas gasped for air and shot upright in the bed. His breathing came in ragged as he glanced around looking more confused than I had ever seen him in my entire life.