Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates novel Chapter 46

Lia

The next morning I sat across from my brother. He had come over to visit and I explained everything to him, watching as his face shifted into anger.

“Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”

“I didn’t want to worry you,” I whispered. “Look she came here to talk with me so I wanted to try to handle it myself. It’s not like I didn’t tell the guys.”

Michael scowled. “So you told everyone in the pack except me?”

“I… didn’t mean to not tell you.”

“For one, I’m your brother, Lia, and two… I’m a part of the Moonveil pack! Don’t you think I have a right to know if some crazy coven is after us?”

Colby cleared his throat. “Michael, she was pretty shaken up by what happened but even after that she went to Havenbrook to get some answers. That was all her.”

“Hey, I was there too!” Matt shouted.

Rain nodded. “Yeah, Matt did the driving. Never ignore the one who does the driving. It’s a very important part of the journey. “Rain, shut up.”

He whimpered and gave Matt a wounded look.

“Hey, I’m just trying to help.

“All of you shut the fuck up and let them talk,” Jesse barked, slamming his hands down on the table to get his point across.

I flashed Jesse a thankful smile.

“Michael, I should’ve told you but I also had to get answers. Next time I promise I will reach out to you right away.”

He sighed. “Fine. But what are we going to do about this coven?”

“I… was thinking of sending them an email.”

“What…?”

“They have a business email on the card, Michael. Let me reach out to them and then see what they say.”

Michael scowled. “And after they reach out to us… what are we going to do?”

“See what they have to say. I want to see if we can try to talk some sense into them.”

I had no idea what to think when it came to them. Witches were not something I had ever dealt with. While I knew they existed, I had no experience with them at all. For me, witches were something that you read about in books. Perhaps there were some witches around here, but this was mostly a werewolf state.

Some states in our country were full of mixed species. This just happened to be a state where mostly wolves settled.

But it got me thinking about my grandmother. How had she been able to leave her coven and run off with my grandfather, the man she was in love with? It was truly inspiring when you thought about it.

I don’t know if I would’ve had the guts to do such a thing.

It would’ve been helpful if my grandma had mentioned it to us. Did she not think that at some point they were going to track us down?

They had been trying to track down our bloodline for decades. I was sick to my stomach to know that there was a bounty on our heads.

“Fine, but I’m going to the meeting if they agree to it,” Michael said after a while.

Jesse laughed. “As if we would let her go on her own. Whether Lia liked it or not, the four of us would be there with her.”

“I don’t need your permission,” I snapped, giving Jesse a look.

“Okay, no you don’t but we still have every right to go,” Rain pointed out with a sheepish grin.

My eyes shifted over to Rain. I glared at him causing him to duck his head.

If the guys wanted to go with me then that was fine but there was no way I was going to let them tell me if I could or couldn’t go meet with Sinead. The only way I was going to get answers and make sure she understood that she couldn’t do this was to confront her directly.

It wasn’t something I wanted to do but rather something I needed to do.

***

When I came downstairs, I bumped into Rain.

“Rain, where’s the hurry? You nearly knocked me over.”

He grinned. “Going to pick up some pizza for dinner. No one feels like cooking. I offered but Jesse gave me a look that told me I can’t cook ever again.”

“Every time you cook something bad happens,” I pointed out, giving him a look. “How many things have you burned, Rain? The other day you nearly burnt the house down.”

“I mean, I didn’t mean to,” he protested.”

Colby laughed from the other room. “No one means to set a fire.”

“Unless you’re an arsonist,” Matt quipped.

I smiled, finding the banter calmed me down a significant amount. It reminded me that things were okay right now. Things may get difficult, but I had my future mates by my side.

But there was this queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. What if the witches try to cast a curse on us or something? I was going to be terrified if they tried to commit a curse. Perhaps I should reach out to the Magical Oversight Committee to see if there was anything they could do.

“Pizza sounds good,” I said after a while, noticing that they were all staring at me strangely.

I supposed I had dazed out there for a moment, causing all of them to look at me with great concern in their eyes. The truth was I was fine or I was trying to be fine. It was just difficult for me to get out of my head and not let my worries overwhelm me to the point where they drove me crazy.

“Do… you want to come with me to pick it up?” Rain offered.

I smiled. “That sounds nice. I think I need to get out of the house for a while.”

What better way to clear my head than to go out with Rain for some delicious pizza?

I couldn’t remember the last time I had a bite to eat honestly. It had been more than a few hours, meaning that I had unintentionally skipped a meal. Skipping a meal wasn’t good, but with everything on my mind I couldn’t help it.

Luckily Rain didn’t say anything when my stomach kept growling.