Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future

Chapter 61

Kas’s POV

 

Coffee and dark chocolate. Mochaccino. | smell it before | open my eyes. Bronx. My mate. He came home. He asked me not to leave. | have a pounding headache from crying but | feel myself being calmed by his scent. | clutch his shirt tight and pull it closer to my nose breathing in deeply. | feel his hand gently rubbing my back.

 

"You awake, Baby?" | hear his rough voice from outside the cocoon he has me wrapped in. |nod my head and he opens up his large arms, so he can look at me.

 

"You ready to talk?" He asks gently, as he brushes my bangs out of my eyes.

 

"| don't know," | tell him honestly, "| don't want to cry anymore."

 

Bronx sighs deeply and shakes his head like he's not sure what to say. He rubs his hands on his face before he continues, "Kas, I-I have some confessions to make and I'm sure you're going to be mad but | need to tell you."

 

“Confessions?” | squeak out.

 

“Oh my Goddess, is he seriously about to say he has been cheating on us?!” Lex starts to growl, “How did we not smell another she wolf on him?!”

 

| feel myself stiffen at Lex's revelation, bracing myself for whatever Bronx is about to Say.

 

look at me. "What?" No, like seriously, what the fuck? | think |

 

His eye darts around, avoiding my glare,

 

you from helping around the packhouse," his voice cracks and

 

He hurt me on

this way. Hopelessness turns into disbelief turns into pure rage. Lex’s and mine combined. That's all | feel. | pull away from Bronx as he desperately tries to hold on to me. Lex is seconds away from taking over and I'm not going to stop her if she

 

| can explain. I-"

 

had enough. She grabs me and roughly yanks me to the back of

 

YOU HURT MY KAS!" The windows rattle and the floor shakes as her voice

 

We shifted without me even realizing it. Lex's

 

hurt Saint too! Please don't hurt our mate!" | plead with her, trying to pull on her consciousness, “just leave. Please, just leave. That is

 

her stride, straight into the woods. | can hear the thundering paws of Saint behind us, along with at least two or three others, presumably James and Marco right behind him. Lex is bigger and stronger than all of

 

I'm glad we are in wolf form because Lex's fur is the only thing keeping us warm. She is

 

need to at least find shelter. It's going to be subzero temperatures soon. Your paws

 

thick in this part of the territory. We can hear Blood River in the distance, off to

 

the silence of the night. We walk inside and look around. The inside of the cabin is a big open room. A thick layer of dust covers everything. No one has been here in a long time. There's a small bed in the corner, covered in quilts and sheepskins. She stands in front of the bed and finally lets us shift back into my human form. Which is great and all, but it is negative degrees outside and I’m freaking naked. | rummage through a trunk next to the

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