The room is silent for a long moment and I'm shocked when it's Jesse's voice that breaks it.

"Whaaat the fuckkk," Jesse groans, turning in a tight circle and covering his face with his hands before dragging them down over his features and turning to glare at me, just as Rafe is.

The room explodes again into noise, everyone shouting at once, except for Jackson, who just stares at me, wary.

"Stop, stop!" I shout, putting my hands out again as tears slip from my eyes, my voice shaking. "Everyone shut up!"

To my surprise, all of the Alphas comply, going still and letting me speak.

and the heartbreak, all of which pulses down our bond as well, threatening to take me out at the knees. "Jackson is my mate," I say quietly, solidly, claiming him. Dread fills me now, and I know that it's only half mine as I turn to Jackson, seeing it on

he senses what's

meant to Jackson to find me, to have me. And I know what it's going to mean to find out that I'm

both of my bonds to each of them, hoping

pieces. Because my stoic mate - if he'd had any choice at

cover his face with his hand, watch his shoulders shake as he tries to process everything. And the grief that ripples off of him in a wave - I stumble back a step, and only Ben reaching

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too, ready to intercede, but I put up a hand towards him. Because Luca's my mate - there's no way he'd consciously hurt me, and he has every right to be livid with

"I didn't know...how to tell you. Either of you. It was all so new - and everyone thought I was

and from the corner of my eye I see him step towards us, "this is...this is real? Luca is her mate? I thought Jackson

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