Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 45
Lanie
rd barely woken up when I heard a bang on my door.
Go ds, what was it now?
A High Elder coming to check if I was pregnant yet?
Were Xander and Zane about to barge in and ream me out for the whole sidepiece thing with Braden?
“Helloooo, Mindy’s voice called from outside the door. “I’m knocking like you asked!”
Relief washed over me.
Mindy I could handle.
“Come in!” I called back
She marched straight in and plopped down on the bed.
“Where the hell did you disappear to yesterday?” she demanded. “I even snuck into the library myself thinking you’d be
there.”
My heart swelled.
Even though we were mated off, Mindy was still as loyal as ever.
But then it hit me what she’d said, and I punched her arm.
“What the f u ck?! You could’ve gotten in huge trouble with Maxim and Monroe!”
They were sweet men, but their job was to guard Xander. They’d have no choice but to punish Mindy if they found her prowling around their private quarters. “I told you not to stick your neck out for me like that”

She shrugged.
“Gotta be honest, there’s not a whole lot else for me to do when the boys are on guard duty. This keeps things interesting.
She wiggled her eyebrows, “Speaking of interesting. How’s that mystery boy of yours?”
I opened my mouth to protest the question, but Mindy interrupted before I could get a word out.
“Don’t worry about Maxim and Monroe. They won’t find out I know about your secret lover.” She said the last words in a deep.
husky rumble.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
“Doesn’t matter anyway,” I told her. “They probably already know.”
Mindy’s eyes widened.
“Xander and Zane caught us together yesterday” I winced thinking about it. “I got pi s ed off and told them Braden n was my sidepiece”
“I’m sorry, you WHAT? Mindy grabbed my shoulders. “What did they do?!”
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I thought back to yesterday, to how Xander had actually backed off..aller he’d threat
But still, he could’ve picked a fight, and he probably would’ve won.
I still wasn’t sure why he hadn’t.
“For a second, I was worried they were about to start the second Great Wars, but then they just left,” I told her.
Mindy’s face twisted with confusion.
You and me both, girl.
“Okay, but the real question is what did Braden say?” Mindy asked animatedly.
When Xander and Zane left, Braden had been surprisingly cool about the whole thing.
A tingle of electricity shot through my body when I remembered what Braden had said when they’d left.
I’d be happy to reap the benefits of being your sidepiece.
I hadn’t slept with him yet, but that was as open an invitation as you could get. And standing there, his smell wrapped all around me, our skin still touching from when I’d pulled him close to me, I wanted to take him up on the offer.
But then I remembered the mate bond.
Could Xander and Zane tell if we’d slept together?
Did they leave because they totally called my bluff?
“Ummm earth to Lanie.” Mindy waved her hand in front of my face, and I blinked hard, tearing myself away from my
thoughts.
“Oh, uhhh…Braden was chill about it, too!
She narrowed her eyes. “Bitc h, we didn’t become friends yesterday. I know there’s more to the story”
I rolled my eyes.
Of course she could see right through that weak-as s answer.