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.

 

me. "What?" No, like seriously, what the fuck? | think | would have rather he told me he was cheating on me, "W-why

 

doesn't answer my question. His eye darts around, avoiding my glare, as he gulps hard and

 

helping around the packhouse," his voice cracks and he clears

 

this on purpose. He hurt me on purpose. He manipulated the people

to feel 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.

 

| can explain.

 

me and roughly yanks me to the back of

 

you, Bronx Mason?" Lex roars in her deep ethereal tone, “HOW DARE YOU HURT MY KAS!" The windows rattle and the floor shakes as her voice booms. Our heart is drumming out of

 

We shifted without me even realizing it. Lex's voice was

 

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

 

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 them and she hasn't been allowed out in weeks, so she has energy to burn. The further we run,

 

the only thing keeping us warm. She is deep into the woods and night is quickly falling and

 

to at least find shelter. It's going to be subzero temperatures soon. Your paws will get frostbite," |

 

still won't answer me. | can feel she's in full primal mode. I'm not sure she could answer me if she wanted to right now, but she does slow to a walk to get her bearings. Her breath visible even in the darkness. The woods are thick in this part of the territory. We can hear Blood River in the distance, off to the right. Other than that, no familiar sights or scents can be found. We can’t hear any wolves around us either, which seems to be satisfactory to her. There’s a path off to the left, she sniffs then follows it up a hill. At the top, there is a little cabin. She sniffs the air again. It seems to

 

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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