Chapter 249

Lanie

I’d been trying to read a thick paperback I’d picked up from the used bookstore next to the coffee shop, but I wasn’t making much progress. I couldn’t concentrate. I was sipping hot coffee with cream and sugar and enjoying the sweet treat of a chocolate croissant.

“Katie?”

I looked up at the sound of a familiar voice. Emotion rushed through me at the sight of my friend’s blonde pixie cut and her wide grin.

“Quinn!”

“Goddess, it’s been so long!”

Before I knew what was happening, I found myself squeezed so tight I could hardly breathe.

“What’s been going on? I haven’t seen you in ages. You look fantastic!” Quinn looked me over with narrowed eyes. “You look different, though. Something’s changed.”

I wanted to tell her everything. It would’ve felt so good to unburden myself about all of it. Xander, Zane, and Mason being my mates. Me being a hybrid…Stella being one, too. Me being the Luna of Constantine Pack.

Orion’s death. All of it.

opened my mouth to start telling her, but something stopped me. I didn’t want to involve my friend in anything that could get her hurt-or worse.

her in

I mean, I guess it has been what…six months or so? Stella must be getting so big! She’s probably

right?”

is,” I said, glad for a reason to brag about my daughter and keep the subject on something that wouldn’t lead to any trouble. “I swear she grows from

than their human counterparts, doubling in size during their first six months and then a couple of times after that before they’d be full grown. Our pups

she said with a laugh. “Wait a sec, I’m going to grab

go anywhere.”

“I won’t. I promise.”

kept my finger holding my place in the book, and when Quinn returned to the

figure you for a

at the book. It was History of the Great

been kept a secret,

put the book away into my bag and forced a

coughed a little and cleared

“How’s Asher?”

was a pain in the a ss to live with for a little while. A sore loser. Not that I blame you,” she added hastily.

“Their friendship didn’t suffer,

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