Brecc frowned. “Why clams?”
“It’s a figure of...of...” She sneezed again, adding a cough this time. “It’s a figure of speech.”
“Why are you crying?” Brecc asked.
She sniffled and wiped her cheeks. “I’m not crying. I’m tearing from the allergies and the sneezing.”
“We don’t need a couple of girls.” Eros grinned. Bella was so funny and cute, with her dainty little sneezes and the way she wiped her cheeks from the tears falling from her eyes. “We just need one.”
She stopped, blinked, and glanced back and forth between him and Brecc. “There’s two of you, though.”
He nodded. “We will share a mate. We are a triad pack.”
She smiled wide and sniffled. “I know all about that. My cousin, Tally, is mated to two wolves. The Alpha and Omega.”
Eros sighed. “So you understand how difficult it is to find a mate.”
She nodded, inhaling hard once, and then twice, before letting her breath out slowly. “That one went away. Seriously, what do you all have in this cabin? I’m having the worst allergies ever,” she sniffled. “I do understand. I promise, Gerri and I will help you.”
NINETEEN
Alyx readied to head to dinner when his library door burst open. Gerri’s face twisted in anger. He’d never seen the matchmaker so close to shifting.
“Where is she?”
There was no need for names. He knew she was asking about Bella. “I left her in her bed this morning.”
Gerri curled her hands at her sides, pushing the wolf back and inhaling hard. “I told her to get up and dress for dinner. I wanted her to meet the king.”
“What?” He jumped to his feet. “I hadn’t told her about being king.”
She clenched her teeth. “Too fucking bad. You shouldn’t have lied to begin with. Now, where is she?”
“I take it she’s not in her bedroom?”
Gerri growled. “She’s not in the castle!”
His heart dropped to his stomach. She figured it out. She found out he was lying and left.
His throat closed up and he had to stop his lion from tearing through his skin. Did she run? Fuck! He’d find her. Wherever the hell she went, he’d follow her and bring her back to this castle that was no longer his home if she wasn’t in it with him.
The door flung open a second time. Karel rushed inside. “What’s going on? I heard yelling all the way to the dining room.”
Gerri turned to face him. “Bella. She’s missing.”
Karel frowned. “That’s strange. She has been good about staying in the castle.”
“She wouldn’t know how to leave the castle walls. We came in through the back. There’s no way she’d be able to leave.” Gerri glanced at Alyx. “Someone took her.”#p#分页标题#e#
“Holy fuck!” Karel gasped.
“What? What do you mean someone took her? Who would dare?” Alyx asked, his heart aching and his lion roaring to be let loose.
“The wolves. They just left a few hours ago.”
Alyx’s lion pushed at the skin. He’d let the animal loose soon. If the wolves wanted war, he’d give it to them. Happily.
They raced up the mountain, anger guiding Alyx’s movements. His lion wanted out. When they reached the cabin Brecc and Eros shared, he didn’t bother knocking. He slammed the door open, knowing full well his mate was in there.
“Bella!”
Gerri’s scream made the cabin shake. Bella ran through a pair of doors and sneezed before she reached them. She stopped in front of Alyx, and he picked her up in his arms, hugging her hard and appeasing his beast.
The two wolves came out from the back of the cabin, heading straight for them.
Alyx put Bella down and launched himself at Brecc, the Alpha. Though bigger and stronger than the wolf, Alyx knew Brecc could fight hard. He tossed Brecc over his shoulder and broke a table in the process.
“Alyx, wait!” Eros yelled.
“Are you crazy?” Karel shouted. “How dare you take a guest from the castle?”
“We meant no harm to Gerri’s assistant,” Eros said. “Nadeeya mentioned how if we wanted Gerri to stay, maybe we should bring Bella here and ask Gerri for urgent help once she showed up to get Bella.”
Alyx tossed a growling Brecc, growling right back and breaking a sofa behind him.
“We didn’t expect the king to show up to get her,” Eros added.
“King?” Bella asked.
Alyx turned to look at her. She frowned at Karel and Gerri before glancing at him, confusion clear in her eyes.
“She’s his mate, you mutt,” Gerri snapped. “Of course he’d come get her.”