Mason


    Katie put her hands on Xander’s chest and pushed him away


    She looked stunned and horrified, but she had to have known what she was doing.


    “It’s not what you think, Mason,” she said in a desperate voice.


    But Xander charged forward: “No, it is what you think,” he yelled. “Because you''re a f ucking liar who tried to steal my mate!”


    Steal his mate? That was a new one.


    She didn’t belong to him, and she


    he never would.


    “Katie''s my mate,” | roared. Colt reared up, pounding at my chest, and | didn’t resist him.


    My ws ripped from my hands, and my canines broke through my gums.


    | snarled dangerously, and Xander started shaking. He couldn’t keep it together, not without his minion


    Zane holding him down..


    brain


    “Her name” Xander growled. is Lanie.”


    Lanie? That was his f u cking daughter’s name. Whatever s hit he was on right now was scrambling his


    “STOP!” Katie shouted, jumping between us. “Xander, he doesn’t know


    Xander nced from Katle to me, narrowing his eyes like he didn’t believe what she was saying.


    “Know what?” | asked.


    Katie turned to look at me. She bit her lip and her eyes went ssy. Whatever she was about to say, she


    Auldn''t like it.


    F uck. My heart was sinking further and further into my stomach the longer she stayed silent.


    “When Braden bit me,” she finally said in a quiet voice, “the poison from his fangs broke the spell that was


    hiding my vampire side. All my memories came back.”


    My vision blurred. | closed my eyes and pressed the palms of my hands against them. This wasn’t happening. My worst fears


    wereing true. | knew as soon as she got her memories back, she’d run straight.


    to Xander


    Gabri wasn’t speaking nonsense at Rhiannon’s. He really was her mate.


    Katie turned to Xander. “Can you give us a minute?”N?velDrama.Org owns this.


    Xander clenched his fists and held my gaze, his wolf still shing in his eyes. But then he let out a


    XCLAMA


    “So Xander and Zane are your mates, | said coldly


    “Yes,” Katie said begrudgingly, “But it’s not that simple. | was their first mate, but they didn’t want me. They only wanted-”


    “Alice,” | said. “I know.”


    Fury shot through me, fast and scorching.


    yout


    think Xander and Zane never loved you?” | demanded, stepping closer to Katie. She backed up a step. “Well, Alice never loved


    me, either. Not like she loved them. And now the same sh it is happening all over


    again.”


    “It’s not,” Katie said, but her voice was so small, so unsure. She swallowed hard. She looked scared.


    F uck. My rage was quickly turning into sadness. Heavy, all-consuming, devastating sadness. Why did | have to fall for the she-


    wolf who was mated to my f ucking brother? What kind of sick twist of fate was that?


    | ran my hands through my hair, grabbing chunks of it in a vise grip.


    | could barely wrap my head around what it meant that she, Xander, and Zane had been mates. They''d


    kissed, they''d f ucked, they''d...


    me


    Realization crashed over me like a tidal wave.


    “Ste,” | said. “Is she Xander’s?”


    Katie''s lip trembled. That told me all | needed to know.


    F uck. She was his, too. Everything was Xander’s. Everything | wanted, everything | loved.


    Alow, sharp moan of pain tumbled from my lips. It sounded eerie and animal even to my own ears.


    Colt was taking over, | could feel it in the way my head was falling back and my skin was tingling.


    “Please don’t hurt Xander,” Katie begged, tears streaming down her face now. “If you hurt him, you hurt


    Even in my rage and devastation, | didn’t want to hurt her.


    | fell down onto all fours, my fur shooting out across my body. | lunged for the door, swiping it open with my paw, and ran out into


    the cool night.


    | wouldn’t hurt him tonight...but | would kill him eventually.