Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chatper 319

Chapter 319
Braden
“I can’t say that I’m shocked. A bit dismayed, of course, that my granddaughter sis facing the fallout of my actions.
e knew that killing Orion would break the Treaty. I should have known the High Council would find a way to wrangle the situation for their own twisted needs.
Malachi offered me a glass of warm crimson liquid.
When I reached to take it, he snagged my wrist and pulled me closer in a half-embrace. “You’ve been gone too long. I wanted you back here ages ago.”
I let myself breathe him in, that cool vampire scent so concentrated in him. Like crisp autumn leaves and cinn amon. Out there in the world, even when I came across another vampire, the smell was diluted, and Malachi… Well, as an Ancient he was always just so much more. It had been too long.
We parted, and he made a show of looking me up and down until I laughed and shook my head,
“It hasn’t been that long, Malachi. I’m sure I still look the same. You certainly do.” I lifted my glass toward him and took a long, slow sip. “Delicious.”
“That beverage? Or me?” He grinned and winked, but the glee on his face faded nearly at once. “You’ve been sending a bounty of information back to us. We’re indebted to you.”

“I came back as soon as the news broke about the Treaty. They’ve put a price on Lanie’s head, Malachi.
Hers and the others. They’re not going to be safe in Stillwood.”
I grimaced at the thought. I’d been hanging around with unsavories for too long, spying to et information to send back to Brightsky. Now that I’d returned, all I wanted was to drink a gallon of Malac and shower off the stink of humans and wolves.
“They’re not in Stillwood. Charlotte and Lanie made a connection, and Charlotte brought
Malachi drained his glass and lifted the bottle, one eyebrow arched.
I followed suit and held out my glass for a refill. All of them?”
“Yes. And their three pups, along with Xander’s mother. They arrived only a couple of days ago ”
“You should have sent word to me,” I said.
e reserve
Malachi shrugged, and I found it impossible to stay mad at him. Maybe that was his Ancient charm, or more likely, the handsome face. He’d appeared to be in his late forties for as long as I’d known him, and I suspected he’d continue looking that age for well, until he didn’t want to, anymore.
“You’re here now. You know now,” he said. “But what is that going to mean for you?”
“Why? Because i had to drink their Luna’s blood so I wouldn’t die?” I laughed. “They’re in Brightsky. They can hate me if they want to, but they’re in our territory. Anyway, they should thank me. taken her
If I had 1/2
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have their Lanie back.
Malachi
lost you
put his glass down and moved to me like quicksilver to touch my face. “I can’t believe I almost
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