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bMy /bstomach is a bundle of nerves as I pick at my breakfast. Beren is no better in helping bme /bbstay /bcalm as she is full of nervous energy too as bshe /bis waiting to go talk to our parents, I had tossed band /bturned all night bas /bI thought over what I was going to say to my parents. What I was going to ask

them.

The twins had warned me that going down to the cells, we would bhave /bto appear that whatever bthey /bsaid meant nothing. We had to appear that we could walk away at any moment because we did not need the answers. Uncle Mike had chimed in that it was going to be a chess match. We had bto /b

remain steps ahead of everyone else.

“Loveb, /byou don’t have to go with us,” bCal /btries to dissuade me.

b“/bCalyx, we talked about this,” I sigh at him as I push my te away from me.

“I know, I just thought I would try once more before we leave,” Cal smirks at me as he grabs my te. He then hands me a small cup of coffee.

I smile at him and start to sip on it. Since my first taste of coffee, I bhave /bbe addicted to it. But my btwins /bhave been regting my coffee intake.

“You leave?” Rose asks as she bfinishes /bher te.

Mark stands up, picking up Rose, as she had been in hisp, and hands her to me. He ces a bkiss /bon Rose’s head and then kisses bme/bb. /b

“We have to do a few things this morning at the pack house,” I tell her.

“Ie with!” Rose says excitedly bas /bshe starts to try and get off myp. “I go back to big ce.”

“Not today, Rosebud,” I say bas /bI stop her from leaving myp. I don’t want her anywhere near my parents when I go to talk with them. This must how my mates have been feeling. I catch the look the twins bare /bgiving me. “Not a word,” I tell them, as I know I bam /bbeing hypocritical.

“You’re staying here with me, half pint,” Uncle Mike says as he wheels himself over to us. He pulls Rose into hisp, “We are going to bake cookies today.”

“Cookies?” Rose asks excitedly as she gets distracted from going with us.

“Yep,” he says as he boops her nose. “We are going to make are going to make snickerdoodles.”

“No chocothins?” Roses asks in confusion as she continues to butcher the word chocte.

“Sorry, I’m out of chocte chips,” heughs as he gives me a bpointed /blook.

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“I am not sorry.” I tell him with a smile.

“I know,” Uncle Mikeughs.

“Thank you,” I tell him.

He nods his bhead/b. “Get the answers you need,” he tells me.

I take a deep breath before I finish my coffee. I stand up and take my mug to the sink.

“Bye, be safe,” Uncle Will says as he is running out the door.

I turn and look at my mates in confusion. The twins both shrug as bthey /bdon’t know either.

“William has the early shift and bis’not /ba morning person,” Uncle Mike sighs as he wheels himself band /bRose into the kitchen. “Change of ns half pint, bwe /bare going to take breakfast to Uncle William.”

“We’ll send Nick over to help,” Mark says as he rinses and puts the dishes in the dishwasher.

Uncle Mike nods his head. “We’ll go on an adventure,” Uncle Mike tells Rose in an excited band /b

conspiring tone.

The bthree /bof us give Rose kisses before bwe /bleave the house. Mark leads the way back towards the

pack house.

Nick is jogging towards us. He stops as we all meet up on the sidewalk. “Sam band /bJames are waiting for you at the basement entrance,” Nick tells us.

My twins are nodding their heads.

“Thank you for going to watch Rose with Uncle Mike,” I tell Nick.

He just nods his head. I can see the defeat in his body. I

well. He is the youngest and must feel like he is getting and that he wanted to be there as

out for being a kid.

“After what happened the other day, we want someone else to watch over Rose when she leaves the house. Uncle Mike will bneed /bhelp in protecting her,” bMark /bsays. He must have an idea of how Nick is

feeling.

“You will be part of questioning your father when we get to him,” Cal speaks up. “Today we questioning Ama and Sam’s family.”

“I know,” Nick sighs. “I just feel like the kid getting the easy job or busy work.”

“Nick, byou /bbare /bprotecting my pup for me. That is important and means a lot to me,” I tell him. “Rose is one of the most important people to bme/bb./b”

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“I bknow /bLuna, it’s just hard. But I will watch and protect her,” Nick says with determination.

“Thank you,” I smile.

We then part ways as three of us continue to the pack house and Nick takes off jogging towards Uncle Mike’s. We reach the pack house a few minutester and walk up the steps. Cal leads me towards the basement entrance.

Sam and James are standing rigidly beside the door. James is not making any jokesb. /bSam is not rolling his eyes. They add to my already frazzled nerves.

I swallow down my nerves. I can do this. I have to do this. I have questions and they have bthe /b

answers.

Cal takes a key out of his pocket. He unlocks the basement door, and the five of us start down the bstairs/b. James goes down first, followed by Sam, Cal, me and then Mark takes up the rear.

Mark slips a key into the lock and locks the door behind us. “Here,” Mark says as he slips the same key into my hands. “If something happens, you are to use that key to get out. You leave us down here band /byou get yourself out.”

“I’m not leaving you both,” I shout as I look at my twins.

‘Love,” Cal says as he stops moving, “you can be there with us. But if something happens to us and we tell you to run, you run. That is our one term, or we all go back upstairs now.”

“Fine, but it’s under protest,” I grumble.

“We can live with that,” Mark says seriously.

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