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froze and Brooks swung his gaze to the Alpha. “What the fuck is he talking about?”
    “Uh,” Kade stuttered.
    Thomas paused and almost backed out of the room. “Kade wanted…”
    “He is part vampire,” Kade yelled and Brooks turned quickly and stared at him open mouthed.
    “How do you know that? He is a wolf, a strong one,” Brooks argued.
    Declan actually had enough thought to look chagrined and said, “We tested his blood.”
    Brooks turned and glared at his friends. “Why would you do that? We already knew that he is our mate.”
    “Because we are testing everyone who comes in here. Something weird is going on, we needed to make sure that none of the people coming were a spy,” Kade said slowly.
    “MY MATE? A SPY?” Brooks bellowed and the men looked at him with a shocked expression. Brooks never got angry and yelled. He was cool as a cucumber. Always had been, even when having to deal with Calli and the girls before they found their mates, and that said something. Those three were hell on wheels and usually found a way to piss off a saint on a daily basis, but not Brooks, he would calmly deal with whatever mess they got themselves into. But this time, his friends had actually crossed the line, they questioned his mate, and his wounded mate at that. It was fucked up. Did they question Simon, who they believed was ‘Mr. Twisted’ for so long, no, Brooks had been the one to smooth that over and assure everyone he was on the up and up.
    “Now we didn’t say he was a spy, we said we were checking. Come on, man,” Kade said and looked at Brooks. “We said we were testing everyone, and that means everyone who crossed onto our land.”
    Brooks turned and stared at the Alpha, and the guys in the room held their breath. He was a warlock, and a powerful one too; they could see the evidence as he struggled to keep his powers in check. The man's hand clenched and unclenched and they could see the blue collared spark flying out from his fingertips as he fought for control.
    “I know,” Brooks said, finally after getting control of his emotions. “But damn it, he was hurt by those bastards.”
    “And they could have seriously faked the whole thing in order to make us think he was harmless,” Kade reasoned.
    There was silence as Brooks digested what Kade said, he knew he was being unreasonable, but damn it, it was his mate. And he would be damned if anyone was going to question him. They had waited too long to find him. Decades, Brooks had held back and his patience to finally mate with Pilar was growing thin. She was pissed and rightly so, but Brooks didn’t care, he had waited because it was the way it had to be.
    Years ago, a Seer had told him that his mating would be hard. He would have to wait to claim Pilar until they had found their third because if he hadn’t, their third would never be able to truly mate with Pilar. He hadn’t understood it at the time, but if he was a vampire, Brooks did. It made sense. Different from other magical creatures, vampires needed to have unmingled blood to mate. If Pilar and Brooks had joined before, their blood would have changed when Pilar bit him. Of course, Brooks had never sat down long enough to explain that to her, it would have been a test of his patience to be that close to her for a long period of time, so he avoided and waited. Now he could see what a mistake that was. The damn stubborn woman was going to be a PITA to him.
    “Let me see the tests,” Brooks said and held out his hand to Thomas who shrugged and gave him the paper.
    “Had to be done,” Thomas said with a hard tone. “None of us are willing to tempt the fates when we finally found our mates. That is all we need, to have a spy in our midst when Calli is pregnant, and the others are probably going to be following soon.”
    “What?” Simon said with a shocked tone. “No, I am pretty sure Rissa will not get pregnant. She has Billy B. She has no need for an infant.”
    Phillip patted his