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Dane
Neah's needs four days. Four long, sex fueled days before it started to ease. I had to put Eric in charge of the pack, I had to tell Klaus that Neah's tutoring would have to wait.
Four days where I had no idea what was happening in my pack because all I could think about was fulfilling Sprawled out on her stomach, she is fast asleep in bed.
It was the first morning since her heat began where her arousal levels had dropped and her usual lavender scent filled the room.
Pressing my hand to her bare back, I could feel that her temperature had lowered too.
Another sign that this heat was over.
She could finally get a decent sleep.
'Finally.' Aero mutters
'You were the one looking forward to it.' I mutter back
'Not all the tears.'
'She was overwhelmed.' I mutter in annoyance. 'She is sore, her body aches.
You try being in heat for four days straight after you've only had sex once.'
He doesn't answer me.
Neah doesn't wake while I shower. She shuffles about in the bed a little, but her eyes remain closed, soft snores escape her.
Kissing her on the cheek, I leave her to sleep and make my way down to my office. I didn't like being out of the loop when it came to my pack but I knew they were in good hands with Eric.
He is already sitting in the office. His head in his hands. As his jiggling knee repeatedly taps the desk.
"Everything alright?"
"It's over?" He asks, "Please tell me you are done!"
"Yes, four days and she is finally out of heat. Is everything alright?"
"Four days is a long time." He was purposely skirting the question.
"Devon did say it lasts longer. She's asleep and probably will be for some time. So what is the problem?"
He won't look directly at me. "We have a guest."
"Who?"
"Madame Curie."
"The last time I saw her, she wanted nothing to do with my situation. Now you are telling me she is here and wants to help." I mutter, marching across the grounds. "She says she has valuable information."
"Well it's a bit late, Neah is no longer bound."
"That's what I told her."
"You told her and she still thinks she has valuable information? I'm guessing she has a price, she normally does."
"She didn't say, but she has been stressing me out since her arrival." Eric mutters. "Though my boys love her."
"Why did you think she should stay at yours?"
"Would you rather I let her stay in the pack house? It wasn't like you just stayed in the bedroom." His lips curve up at the corners.
"If I remember correctly, you got caught fucking Kelsie in the janitors cupboard at school and privacy doesn't bother me."
"Anyway," He mutters, "I told Madame Curie that we already know about Neah, that the truth has already come out. But she said there's more."
We stopped in front of his house where we could hear his boys laughing on the other side of the door.
"Alpha Dane." Madame Curie pulls the door open to us. "I'm glad you could make it, I know you have been a little...." she looks back at the boys and then at me.
"Busy. Maybe this conversation isn't suitable for the boys."
"Boys." Eric mutters, "Go to your grandparents."
They protest, but eventually leave. Eric doesn't move until he sees them enter their grandparents house.
"The last time I saw you, you were hurrying away." I groan, taking one of the chairs at the small kitchen table. "Yes, And I'm very sorry I left that way, Alpha Dane. I was not prepared to discuss Moonshine with you." "And you are now? I know about Neah, I found a way to unbound her."
"I have been told. But what you don't understand is that Neah has been bound more than twice."
"You didn't tell me that." Eric scowls at her.
"There is much more to Neah's past that has long been buried."
"And let me guess, a million?"
"Not this time, this time, you need to know."
"What the fuck are you talking about?" I sano, growing impatient.
"Neah has been bound a minimum of four times. Perhaps many more. It was not until I heard the name of her pack, that I suddenly realised who you were talking about. The newborn baby that I bound." 'Four times?' Aero mutters alarmed
"What? You bound her as a baby?" I was disgusted.
"You said you are aware she is a Lycan." Madame Curie taps her long fingernails on the table
"Yes, though I don't know much about them."
"They shift at thirteen." she smiles like its a great bit of information.
"I was made aware. But what does that have to do with you binding her?"
"She shifted the day she was born."
Eric and I look at each other, and speak in unison. "That can't be possible."
"I saw it with my own eyes, Alpha Dane and until a few weeks ago, you didn't know her kind existed."
"Bullshit." I snap, rising from my chair.
"She was different. Is different." Madame Curie sighs
"You said four times. Her eighteenth, when she was six, as a newborn and when?"
"Just after the age of one."
"One? What the hell can a one year old do?"
"She started shifting again. Her father was beside himself. He didn't know what to do, so he called me again. But this time, when I met her, she was strong, powerful. I watched her shift in and out of her beast as though it was some kind of game. Like she knew that was why I was there."
"How could a one year old know what you were planning?" Eric asks
"You tell me. To seal the bind, she needed to be in human form, otherwise she would be bound and trapped in Lycan form. We had to wait days as she forced herself to stay awake, fighting sleep like she knew what was coming."
It didn't sound anything like my shy, stuttering mate. But then she had been beaten so much over the years that maybe they had made her a shell of what she used to be.
"You bound her twice, who bound her when she was six and then again when she was eighteen?"
"I do not know. But I did try to tell you, Alpha Dane. I told you she had strong Alpha blood and I was right. I am right."
"Why are you here now? Why did you wait so long to tell me? What do you hope to gain from it?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?" Eric quizzes. "So you have been bugging me for days, just to tell us this."
"She isn't just your bride, is she Alpha Dane? She is your mate, the one destined to be by your side."
I don't respond
"Hmm, the Moon Goddess does work in strange ways."
"What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" I snap
"You are a powerful man, Alpha Dane. You are either being tested or you have met your match. She will either break you or make you." Madame Curie gets to her feet. "Now I must go."
"Is that it? You are going to swan in here with that kind of information and then disappear again."
"There is only so much I can tell you, Alpha Dane. I don't know what that girl is capable of. I just know that she is. I felt it when I was around her as a baby. I felt it the moment I set foot in your pack." "Felt what?"
"Her power." she looks me dead in the eye. "And that is what drew you to her, long before you scented the mate bond."