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and
shook his head.
 I m not sure, he s scrambled my senses. Is he? Giddey leered at Moe. Abby brought Moe s hand up
and kissed it. Giddey slumped down in his chair.
 Straight.
Grinning, Rhys picked up Moe s other hand and kissed it. Giddey perked up.
 Bi. That makes me feel better. Gorgeous men deserve to be with gorgeous men. No offense, ladies.
Giddey shrugged.
 See Rian, Giddey had trouble too, so you can just stop with the ridiculous idea that you re not gay!
 Him, not gay? Giddey started laughing hysterically.
 I know right? I ve been putting up with his craziness since Moe and Rhys found out they were mates.
I
think it was when he found out that his favorite porn actor wasn t really gay, just gay for pay, that sent
him
over the edge. Damian lay his head down on the table, exhausted. Bethy rubbed her brother s back
sympathetically. Asling reached up and popped Rian in the back of the head.
 Ow!
 You ve been gay since before I was born, Rian Stafford, stop being so melodramatic. Asling rolled
her eyes.
 She reminds me of Cassie, no nonsense. Abby smiled for a second and then a panic set in.
 Fuck a duck! I forgot to call Cassie and check in! Abby scrambled for her phone.
 It s only been a couple hours, you ll be fine. Rebecca waved her hand at her friend.
 You don t understand, I got distracted in Nevada for a bit. Abby stared at her phone dreading
making
the phone call she had to make.
 You totally hit Vegas! How long were you there? Rebecca asked.
 Umm like a week, but I had just finished a really huge project when Cassie called about the
Christmas
cards. I needed to unwind. She held out her phone to Rebecca.
 You call her.
 Fuck. That. Noise. Rebecca shook her head.
 Becca, language, Ma called from behind the counter.
 Sorry, Ma.
Abby took a deep breath and prayed for voice mail.
Cassie answered on the first ring.
 Abby? Abby where in the hell have you been!
 I umm.
 Do you have any idea how worried Meg and I have been?
 I& 
 I swear, first Rebecca then you. Did you fall into a vortex where you forgot how to use your fucking
phone?
 No, I went to Vegas.
Wrong answer.
 I m sorry, I thought I heard you say you went to Vegas when I specifically asked you to find Rebecca
and make sure she was okay. Your phone must be malfunctioning. Cassie s sarcasm dripped through
the
phone.
 I won like two hundred dollars and I got you a shot glass. There s a naked guy on it and when there s
liquor in it you can totally see his& 
The sound of something being repeatedly hit against a hard surface echoed through the diner from her
phone.
 I found Rebecca. She was in Arkadia. She s mated and has the cutest little kiddo and is perfectly
fine,
Abby said, quickly trying to avoid a full Cassie explosion.
 Thank god she s okay.
Abby nodded, relieved that Cassie sounded like she was calming down.
 Wait a minute, how is she in Arkadia? It s a shifter-only town. The only bears there are the
Arkadions.
Please tell me she didn t mate one of the Arkadion brothers. Cassie s voice carried and the
Arkadion boys
sat up straighter in their chairs, glaring at the phone. Abby smiled nervously.
 Umm she s mated to Aleksander Arkadion. Abby waited. Rebecca just sat there grinning like an
idiot.
She never seemed to get on Cassie s bad side. The silence was starting to freak her out.
 And umm, I found my mates too. Moe Jones and Rhys, he s a vampire. So I ll be moving out here
too. Abby waited. She couldn t even hear Cassie breathing. Had she killed her best friend?
 Let me get this straight. Abby winced.
 You and Rebecca will be living in close proximity to each other and she is mated to the Arkadion,
making her the single most powerful female in the paranormal world as Alpha Mother? Cassie
asked, her
voice quiet and dangerous.
 Umm yup.
 Why me! Why gods in heaven me!  Abby pulled the phone away from her ear.
 For four years I watched over the two of you. Abby, you are like this natural disaster, it s never your
fault, but that doesn t change the fact that cities are leveled in your wake. Rebecca is twisted enough
to do
that shit on purpose just to watch people squirm! Four fucking years! Do you know that after I joined
Sentinel my assignments were like a vacation compared to watching over the two of you? Bombs in
Iraq?
No problem. Serial killer in Brazil? No worries. My Commander was convinced that I was a
heartless bitch,
because nothing disturbed me as much as listening to the two of you hatch schemes. Nothing panicked
me
more than keeping the two of you alive. Fuck Almighty! You and Rebecca are like a horrible Syfy
Saturday
movie gone wrong, like a tornado on a collision course with a nuclear power plant about to explode.
I can t
do this. I cannot do this!
 Now, Cassie, remember your breathing.
 Fuck my breathing!
 Rebecca built a bomb when she was eight. Do you remember what she told us? She had just finished
reading Lord of the Rings and was afraid the Uruk-hai were coming for her family. Did she hide
under the
covers? Did she ask her dad to check under her bed? No, that crazy midget built a fucking bomb and
that s
not even the one that got her banned from laboratories from the US government, that was her science
fair
project when she was twelve!
 Hey, we re older now. We re both mated. We re all kinds of mellow yellow, aren t we Rebecca?
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