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.

even opened my mouth to start telling her, but something stopped me. I didn’t want to involve my friend in anything that

her in

“You’ve taken off the baby weight, for one thing. I mean, I guess it has been what…six months or so? Stella must be getting so big! She’s probably about to have her

right?”

the subject on

in size during their first six months and then a couple of

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

go anywhere.”

“I won’t. I promise.”

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

I didn’t figure you

was History of the Great Wars.

been kept a secret,

thought it looked interesting, but it really isn’t.” I shrugged and put the book away into my bag and forced

coughed a little and cleared

“How’s Asher?”

he sure was a pain in the a ss to live with for a little while. A sore loser. Not

I frowned. “Their friendship

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