Chapter 86\u00a0<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t know what I\u2019d done to deserve a family like this, but I thanked the Goddess that I had them. Without them \u2026 I didn\u2019t know how I could have made it through this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Third person POV\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re so little,\u201d Lance said for at least the third time in the last two hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, they are,\u201d Cassian agreed again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t stop thinking about how different things could be if my brother wasn\u2019t such an ass,\u201d Lance sighed, sitting on the couch beside Cassian. He looked toward the two beautiful baby boys. \u201cHe\u2019d be over the moon.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI know you\u2019re feeling guilty about keeping this from him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t feel guilty,\u201d Lance insisted. \u201cI just wish it didn\u2019t have to be like this. It sucks for everyone involved.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI know,\u201d Cassian agreed, glancing at the bassinets. \u201cThey should be in the pack house, where they belong. But it\u2019s not safe for Ellie there-or for them. We still don\u2019t know who attacked her, or why. That rogue has been in custody this whole time, and with the interrogation techniques Nolan\u2019s been using, he still hasn\u2019t said a word. Whoever put him up to this must be pretty damn frightening.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you\u2019re sure someone put him up to it?\u201d Lance asked skeptically. \u201cYou think his story\u2019s completely made up?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI do,\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCassian said firmly. \u201cThere\u2019s no particular proof I can point to-it\u2019s just a feeling. Something about the situation isn\u2019t right. Do you remember that first formal dinner we had when my father and I arrived at Silverfang?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cVaguely,\u201d Lance responded. \u201cI think I was there, but I didn\u2019t stay long.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was an incident later in the evening where Ellie kept insisting that someone had tampered with her food. Nolan had it tested, and there was nothing wrong with it, but she was absolutely certain.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTampered with her food?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe kept insisting it had been poisoned. No proof was ever found, and the whole thing got brushed off\u2014but Ellie was very serious and very upset.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think someone tried to kill her way back then?\u201d Lance asked, sitting forward and looking at Cassian seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s possible,\u201d Cassian replied. \u201cAnd if it\u2019s true, then it\u2019s proof this stabbing incident wasn\u2019t the act of some desperate madman who was jealous. It was planned. It was targeted. For a reason. And I think more than one person is to blame.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think it\u2019s some kind of conspiracy against Ellie? Why?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the part I can\u2019t figure out,\u201d Cassian admitted with a sigh. \u201cI can\u2019t see who would have the motivation to want her dead. Sure, there are people who dislike her-and goddess knows Nolan has plenty of enemies\u2014but other than causing drama for him, I don\u2019t see the benefit of hurting Ellie. Maybe there\u2019s something we\u2019re missing. Someone from her past. Or some hidden motivation. But\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re doing the right thing keeping her hidden, I know that much,\u201d Lance assured him. \u201cAnd we\u2019ll keep hiding them. We\u2019ll keep them safe as long as we have to. No one is going to hurt those babies as long as I\u2019m alive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Chapter 86\u00a0<\/p>\n
+25 Bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel the same way,\u201d Cassian agreed quietly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The two of them sat in silence, the sound of the babies breathing deeply the only sound in the room. Ellie was still sleeping in the next room. For all of her attempts to downplay it, they both knew she was in pain and beyond exhausted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ellie said it herself, they were family. It was up to them to make sure that she and the babies were safe and happy. They were the only ones who could do that now.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They were the only family that Ellie had.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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