He sighed. “This is Austin, James and Lucas… freya’s future husband.”
The girl’s face fell at her father’s words.
“freya’s future husband?” she whispered as her eyes went from her sister to Lucas.
“Yes!” Gideon roared. “now, leave before you cause any more trouble.”
“I’m sorry father.” She apologized as she exited the room.
A chill silence settled over the room as we all watched her go.
“I’m sorry but I’ll have to cut this meeting short.” Gideon said as he turned to us. “My sons will show you out.”
He grabbed freya by her hand and followed after his other daughter with a determined look on his face. I almost felt sorry for the girl; she just seemed to be having a little bit of fun. I didn’t see any harm in that.
“Did anything about that seem weird to you?” Austin asked as the men walked us out of the building. They were to the front of us, each of them discussing what had just happened.
I turned to Lucas, he was unusually quiet.
“I’m sorry Lucas,” I apologized. “This is entirely my fault, I dragged you into my mess when that’s the last thing I ever wanted to do.”
“I think…” he paused. “I think Avery is my mate.”
Austin and I turned to look at him in disbelief.
Had we just heard correctly? Avery Blackner was his mate?
You have to be shitting kidding me!
“How sure are you?” Austin whispered. We had to be extra quiet while the Blackners continued to walk in front of us. If they had the slightest clue that Lucas and Avery were mates, that would be it for us. They would surely do anything to keep them apart.
Lucas rubbed his eyes. “I don’t know,” he whispered. “I’m not sure what the mate feeling is supposed to feel like. I felt an instant connection the moment I saw her but-,”
“But what?” I asked.
“Something feels like it’s blocking it.” He confessed. “It’s hard to explain.”
“You think it’s possible that Gideon placed a spell on his daughter like Ariana did to Austin?” I asked.
After that incident with my brother, I wouldn’t be surprised if a similar thing was happening here. And Gideon definitely had motive to do something like that. He may have done something to block her from figuring out who was her mate or to block her mate from finding her.
“Walk faster.” Arthur growled in front of us.
“Imagine having to live with him.” Lucas grumbled with an unpleasant look on his face. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, Arthur looked like a pain in the a*s.
Austin placed his hand on Lucas’s shoulder. “We’re taking everything one step at a time. Trust me, when your time comes. We’ll find a way to get you out of it as well.”
“I’ll like to see you try.” One of Gideon’s sons said from in front of us. I still had no idea what all of their names were, all except Arthur.
Was that a threat? They clearly didn’t know us well enough. We always found a way to escape from a trap like this. It may take a while but we always got out.
After Eden was out from the council, I’ll make it my priority to get Lucas out of this mess.
But if his mate truly was Avery, I didn’t think Lucas would want us to take him out of this. He would want to be with her no matter what.
“next time,” Arthur said suddenly as we reached the wall. “Keep your packs at home. We don’t do well to threats. We won’t let it slide the next time.”
“Sure thing, brother.” Lucas said as we reached the top of the wall.
The Blackners looked at each other. They all had a dumbstruck look on their faces as they peered up at Lucas as though he’d completely lost it.
“Did he just call Arthur his brother?”
I shook my head. It was good to see that Lucas still had a bit of that playfulness in him despite what had just happened. I never wanted to see that part of him disappear.
I always wanted to see him happy and I would do everything in my power to make sure that happens.
…….
***EDEn***
I was restless. The last I’d seen of James was when he’d left on that trip that no one seems to want to tell me about.
At first, everyone seemed so open and like they wanted me to know everything about my life. But now, I felt like they were keeping a lot of things from me.
I didn’t like it.
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