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.
me. I didn’t want to involve my friend in anything that
her
has been what…six months or so?
right?”
and keep the subject on something that wouldn’t lead to any trouble.
and then a couple of times after that before they’d be full grown. Our
“Wait a sec,
go anywhere.”
“I won’t. I promise.”
place in the book, and when Quinn returned to the seat across from me, she tilted her head
figure you
of the Great Wars. So far, the
been kept a secret,
I shrugged and put the book away into my
little and cleared
“How’s Asher?”
the a ss to live with for a little while. A sore loser. Not that I
“Their friendship
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