The Society Series: Box Set 0 - 3 by Sabre Mason

Author:Sabre, Mason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Wolf Books
Published: 2020-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Gemma couldn’t stop shaking as she sat at the dinner table in Shelley’s dining room. Despite the comfortable warmth of the house, her teeth wouldn’t stop chattering. She was glad that Shelley and Tom had gone back upstairs to give them some privacy.

Aaron had chosen his mate.

The words tumbled around in Gemma’s mind, unable to compute. She could understand it, she knew what it meant, but to actually believe it was another thing entirely. “The Council have agreed? My dad?” she whispered the last part with a touch of hope.

“They set me up ... my father ...” Cade sat next to Gemma, his chair turned so that he was facing her. He reached out to take her hand between his, running his thumb across the back as he sat thinking. She didn’t pull away from him, needing his touch as much as he did in that moment. He brought her hand to his mouth and laid a gentle kiss in her palm. She didn’t dare to make it more, though. She didn’t trust herself. She needed logic right now—they needed it. Decisions fuelled with overriding emotions would sure as shit get them in more trouble than they were already in.

Cade lifted his eyes to hers, his gaze penetrating. “The Castle woman was there,” he said carefully.

Jealousy surged through her, red-hot and malevolent. So much as she didn’t want to know, and didn’t want him to say yes, she had to ask, “And her daughters?”

“No. Just the mother. No doubt to witness it all and tie the noose around my neck more tightly.” Cade exhaled heavily. “My father knew. He had to. There was no other reason for me to be there except for him to set me up like this. He loved every minute of it, too.”

Gemma’s stomach clenched with dread. It would be typical of Trevor to do something like this. “He wanted to see your reaction when they told you?”

“I think he wanted to see if I would back out. It would be his chance to snatch Phoenix then and get rid of him. I can't even give him the flicker of a reason.”

Gemma swallowed hard. “You didn’t back out, did you?” Part of her wished he would say yes, because it fixed everything, but the other part of her knew she couldn’t do that to Phoenix. He would be out on his own, and he wouldn’t last long. She could never sacrifice his happiness for hers. God, she hated this gridlock they were stuck in.

Cade’s expression fell, his jaw clenching. “I can't.”

“I know. “She leaned into him, resting her forehead against his, their hands clasped between them. Nothing else in the world existed right then—just them. The Castle woman was nothing more than a bogeyman made up to scare her. It couldn’t hurt her if she had Cade. That was what she tried to tell herself anyway. But looking into Cade’s deep blue eyes, she could see that he was scared, too. His wolf roamed in the back, waiting to emerge.

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