Trials (The Forever Series, Book 6) by Eve Newton Read Free Book Online

travel has played havoc with my
brain. It’s nothing.”
    He accepts that and comes to kiss me. “I have time, if you
would be so inclined, to take a shower with me.”
    “Well no way am I turning down the opportunity to see you
wet and naked,” I say and everything and everyone else is forgotten as he leads
me to the bathroom.
    Chapter 3
    After Cole leaves for work I am suddenly inundated with
everyone coming up to see me and spend time with me. I think the time
travelling events have shaken everybody up and the only one who got any comfort
was Cole. Dawn went with Cole, to her delight, and Jess is locked up in her
bedroom with the formidable Grayson watching her every move, so it’s just me
and the boys.
    I sit serenely while everyone does my bidding, but my mind
is only thinking about that awful dream. I mean I can understand the whole baby
part, although I do dread the idea of gaining weight like that. Future me had
better be right in saying it will be her and not me , but the
Lance bit? I shiver in horror. I was happy in the dream, like it was everything
I wanted. Somehow CK got replaced by his evil charge and I don’t like that, at
all. Even in just a dream it seems so wrong and a massive betrayal, but thank
god Lance is dead. Deader than dead by my own hand, I saw him go and that is a
great comfort to me.
    “What’s on your mind, little one?” Sebastian says to me.
“You seem a thousand miles away.”
    “I am,” I say, remembering then being kissed and touched by
him in the future. “No where you want to be though.” And that’s another thing
bothering me, this whole notion that future CK has with Sebastian and me
“taking care of him.” I mean, what is all that about?
    “I want to be wherever you are,” he murmurs to me. “I am
calling on my third.”
    “Already?” I snap at him and CK looks at us sharply but then
turns away, carrying on his conversation with Cade. Interesting. “You know you
have to wait until Friday again, right?”
    “Let me worry about that. Meet me in my suite in about two
hours. Make your excuses. And remember what you promised me,” he whispers to me
and leaves me again.
    I sigh as Lincoln shoves his iPad under my nose. “Here,” he
says.
    “What is it?” I ask as I take it from him.
    “A list of six Wolf Shifters who have already asked.”
    “Oh, sweetie. I don’t need to approve anyone. Just include
them.”
    “No, this is our Pack, our decision,” he says forcefully, to
which everyone stops conversing among themselves and stares at us.
    “Your Pack?” CK croaks out, looking upset.
    I hand the iPad back to Lincoln and stand next to him. “Yes.
Our Pack.”
    “When did you decide this?” he asks softly.
    Lincoln answers for me and says, “Dragon clarity is
something else,” before he lowers his head to kiss me on the mouth. He would
never disrespect Cole in that way but seeing that he is not around, he is
exerting his authority as my Alpha in front of the others and it makes me warm
and fuzzy inside. Can’t say that everyone else feels the same, though, as I
pull away to mutinous glares, even from Sebastian, and he holds no claim over
me. Strange.
    “So?” he asks. “Will you look at it?”
    “Of course.” I take it from him again and turn towards the
dining table to sit and peruse his findings.
    “Perfect,” I say to him after a few minutes, even though I
don’t really have much clue what I am looking at. They all seem decent. Good
jobs, I even recognize one of the names, an investment banker, but never had a
face to place with it until now.
    “Do you even know what you are looking at?” he says with an
amused chuckle at me, clearly reading my thoughts.
    “Not really,” I admit, abashed. “But I trust you completely
so I assume you have only picked the best and brightest.”
    “That I have. No losers for us.” He laughs out loud and I
join in before CK sidles over to us and asks quietly, “Aefre, can we have that
talk now, about that