Chapter 75
75 – Found Another Mate?
Madeline:
“You don’t have to go downstairs,” Baxter said a little sternly after spending several minutes trying to convince me gently not to go.
Ever since I woke up, a few things had happened.
Elgin had found me a pair of pants and a shirt from somewhere, and they had also brought food, thinking I’d be able to eat after hearing that I had killed the old man.
Now all I wanted was to see the damage I had caused, because I remembered it.
This time, I actually remembered it.
But they wouldn’t let me go down there. I just wanted to remind my wolf that there were other ways to handle things.
We could have caught him, scratched him, bitten him, knocked him out. We didn’t have to go that far.
“ No.” Lena, my wolf, replied to my thoughts, her tone firm.
I’d never had a wolf before, and from what I’d heard from the others, not many of them talked much about theirs.
So now that she had woken up, I was pretty sure this wasn’t how wolves usually behaved toward their humans.
“I just want to see the damage I caused,” I repeated.
Graham’s jaw tightened even more this time.
“Either that, and you’ll traumatize yourself, or you can go back home. Your children are waiting for you,” Baxter said, holding his tongue as best he could, probably because he knew I was already furious.
But he wasn’t wrong. There was nothing more I could do here.
“Besides, why do you want to see that man? It’s not like he deserved your sympathy. Your wolf did what needed to be done. Don’t think about him, he was an asshole who died,” Elgin said sharply, making me sigh tiredly.
He wasn’t wrong either.
“Knowledge isn’t supposed to make you lose your mind. It’s supposed to make you civilized,” Graham added, his fists clenching at the thought of the old man.
Well, I guess none of them were wrong.
“So what are we going to tell the world about what happened here?” I asked, realizing that the nurse would be here soon.
If she saw the chaos in the basement, she’d be traumatized for life,
The three of them exchanged glances almost instantly before Baxter shifted in his seat.
“We’ve talked about it,” he said. “We’ll tell everyone that we came here to speak with the man about some things, and that he attacked us instead. That he’d lost his mind. I’m pretty sure that’ll be enough. ”
I nodded. I guessed they really didn’t want me involved in this mess and it made me wonder if it was because of my wolf.
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How crazy was she?
Crazy enough to kill someone brutally and then attack her own mates. At least two of them.
“Are you sure it was just the two of them?” Lena spoke up suddenly.
Every time she stirred awake in me, it jolted me, not out of fear, but out of shock.
I wasn’t used to having an inner voice.
“Anyway, let’s go. We’ll drop you home, and then we’ll come back to finish up here,” Baxter suggested.
I noticed the others exchange looks, wordless communication passing between them.
“ What is it?” I asked.
“We all don’t need to drop you off,” Elgin said. “If we all leave and the nurse or someone else shows up, maybe the house helps, there’ll be more trouble. One of us should take you while the rest stay to clean up the mess p>
He looked between the others, waiting for someone to agree.
“Fine. I’ll take her home,” Baxter said firmly.
“Not really. I can do that,” Graham cut in, volunteering.
“Did you forget you’ve got someone waiting for you at home?” Elgin said, arching a brow. “If she sees you returning with Madeline, she’ll cause another scene. It’s better if I take her while you two finish up here p>
The moment Elgin mentioned Kaylee, I remembered Yuvonne and I really didn’t want to deal with those two again.
Especially Yuvonne.
“Yeah, I’ll go with Elgin,” I said before anyone else could argue.
That seemed to end the discussion, though neither of them looked happy about it.
“Great, then let’s go,” Elgin said quickly.
He was oddly pushy, almost too eager to get me away from them.
Maybe he wanted to talk about something.
There was a small pull we both felt but since I was still in my wolf form at that time, nothing was completely clear.
So was that why he wanted to take us alone?
I didn’t want to talk about it. But I could always just shut him up.
We left the house and got into Elgin’s car.
While they had been running around handling things for me, they had also parked their cars in a way that blocked the entrance, just to buy some time before anyone came storming in.
The front door was completely broken, so anyone could walk inside,
“Don’t think too much about it, Madeline. That asshole was trying to do something weird to you,” Elgin began, trying to calm me down.
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“ I’m not thinking about him,” I replied quietly, leaning back against the seat.
But then he stopped. The car came to a halt in the middle of the road near the woods.
“ Why are we stopping here, Elgin?” I asked, my voice filled with uncertainty.
I thought he wanted to talk about the strange pull between us, but I didn’t expect him to stop the car just to make sure I wouldn’t leave until he got his answers.
He stepped out, walked to my side, and opened the door.
“I’m not getting out of the car,” I told him.
“I just need to know something. Please,” he urged.
I shook my head and crossed my arms tightly over my chest.
But then, without a word, he leaned in and pressed his lips against mine.
The sudden softness froze me for a moment.
I grabbed his collar, ready to push him away until something shifted inside me.
It was a feeling I had experienced before, twice.
Everything around us went still.
We couldn’t even pull away from the kiss until I heard my wolf whimper softly.
“Mate,” she whispered. 1
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