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    XXnndenbad a hand on my back, between my shoulder desstpresessen the phone to my car.


    “Chadrone? What''s going on?


    Theekhoow they all know!”


    The abkanowwhat? Who''s they?” | tried to keep my voice calm, since to was as clean that she wasn’t able to


    “Wold and knows that the Treaty has been broken.”


    Her voice asped, but she took an audible deep breath that | hoped meant she wow as getting herself under


    ime kind of Co onool.


    “Cent put togenn speaker? I’m here with my mates.”


    “Sure fine Therabneed to hear this, too.”


    tapped the scene and held my phone in my palm as my mates moved closer was saidtvering in the


    termath of the amrangg sex d didn’t think much was going to bring me down from that. Noworongvinile.


    yway.


    “Okay, go ahead Chaddou


    “Words out that the deaty was broken Charlotte repeated.


    “That’s not such a shookkming, I’m surprised it took so long.” Mason said.


    “The official statementfromthgh Council is that the ones responsible for the murder of


    executed” Charlotte''s voice scanned aga rising at the end of her sentence.


    Xander and | shared a look


    “So, they’reing after Mcatif rappled to her


    “No. Lanie The High Counciting a try you out in fact, theyre alling after you. Everyone.


    You''ve been exiled”


    Mason frowned We''re being tared abbeceno foguer?


    To the three of us, he thought. This note


    We always knew that Xander and | bom vatru ani tady vis be epted 10gether as Alphas of Constantine ack. We have each


    other!


    “More than that. You have a collectivo pone on your needilibaura alt bring hunted as enemies of the pack.”


    How can the High Counot get away with what


    Whebe


    Treaty. That would be a pack issue, yeah, but it has nothing to do with the f ucking Treaty.”


    “Because your High Council is made up of liars and cheats, because they''ll do whatever is necessary to get what they want and


    keep control,” Charlotte spat through the phone. They told the entirety of wolf-kind that Lanie is a hybrid! Part vampire!”


    “Which means if Lanie killed Orion, then she broke the Treaty,” Zane said.


    I''d been basking in the warmth of my mates’ naked bodies, but now | shuddered from the sudden chill raking its talons up and


    down my spine. “The High Council is iming that | killed Orion?”


    Mason got off the bed and began yanking on his clothes. “That’s f ucking ridiculous. Orion was a f ucking Alpha. Even if he had


    passed on his role to Xander, obviously he was way f ucking stronger than Lanie could ever be. How the f uck could she possibly


    kill him?”


    “They named you all as co-conspirators,” Charlotte said. “With Lanie putting you up to it. It doesn’t really


    matter, they say, whose hands actually did the killing.? N?velDrama.Org - All rights reserved.


    She''s the one in charge, she’s part vampire, and therefore, the Treaty is broken.”


    “The Treaty was broken,” Zane said matter-of-factly.


    And we knew that was going to be a huge problem.


    But | don’t get it. Does the council really think Lanie, of all people, was behind it?”


    “Do they really believe it?” Xander barked out.


    Charlotte cleared her throat. “I’m not really sure what they believe, versus what story they’re spinning to


    keep the upper hand. Whatever it is, that’s the word that has gone out. Lanie Constantine and her mates are


    complicit in the murder of Orion Constantine.


    Lanie Constantine has been proven to have vampire blood, and therefore, the Treaty has


    Lanie and her mates, Xander and his Beta Zane, along with their known associate, Mason


    recognized as Mason Constantine, shall be hereforth named as Exiles in the First Degree.”


    She sounded like she was reading the words, and her voice hitched and cra ckled over each on


    | took the panties and bra Mason handed me and began dressing. The others did, too. The four of moved almost in formation,


    gathering sc at tered clothes and finding fresh items in the dresser drawers


    It seemed that most everything had been provided for us all, in the right sizes and everything


    ten.


    For a second, a frigid fear swept over me it was so clear that everything had been prepared especially for


    us. fight down to my bra size. That meant someone here in Brightsky had to know everything about us..so. how had they found it


    all out?


    “Lanie!” Charlotte’s voice dragged me out of my para “Can you all get down here to the meeting area fast as you can??


    “Sure Of course We''ll be there right away,” | told her


    1 assume the lights will show us the way?”


    More tracking.


    “Yes,” Charlotte said. “Hurry.”