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mate’s arm and laughed. “Keep living the dream.”
    “Not cool,” Declan huffed.
    “Cherri is still in the ‘I am a princess’ phase so we are good.” Nik laughed.
    “Hey, someone is getting pregnant because I cannot go through this alone. Calli is driving me crazy. I need backup, someone had better be throwing those condoms away,” Kade bellowed.
    “Alpha, I love you like a brother and would take a bullet for you, but a baby. Nah, that seems to go a little too far,” Simon said.
    If only they knew who was listening in, they would have thought twice before saying a word.
     

Chapter Three
     
    Calix tried to open his eyes yet again. He could hear the three women in the room laughing and arguing, he wanted to know where the fuck he was. None of this made sense, he had escaped.
    “Viv, you know as well as I do that Cherri is going to be a pain in my ass about this. I am not waiting for years to get me a grandbaby,” one of the women said.
    “Me either, Rissa wants me to dress up the damn dog and treat him like a grandchild. I mean really, it is just sad,” another woman said.
    “Well, if we do this, and they find out, I swear I will kill you both,” a woman who had to be sitting next to him said.
    Calix tried to move his hands but nothing. Damn it, he was going to have to lie there forever listening to these crazy women. So far, he had heard about menstrual cycles, condoms, and even more traumatizing old people sex with whips. Would this hell ever end?
    “Hey, he moved,” one of the women said.
    “Yeah, right,” another one said. “You have been drinking too much.”
    “No seriously, his eyelids fluttered,” the first one said.
    Calix forced himself to try again, but he didn’t think he was moving anything. Then someone must have lifted his eyelid because the bright light gave him a piercing pain in his head.
    “See, his eyeball is moving,” one of them said.
    Finally, Calix growled, the pain was too much. “Let me go you crazy bitch.”
    “Wait, did he just call me a crazy bitch?” one of them said and Calix moaned again when his eye was released.
    “He did,” one of the others said. “Although he was whispering, he could still be in a drug haze.”
    “Hey,” the woman who had a hold of his eyelid before said.
    When he didn’t answer right away, Calix felt her grab his eyelid again and open it. This time it hurt just as bad, but he was able to focus a little. A woman with blonde hair that looked a little like his old school teacher was in his line of sight.
    “Did you call me a crazy bitch?” she asked.
    Calix groaned and tried to shake his head away. He was feeling stronger, but still like road kill. “Yes, the light,” he muttered.
    “How rude. Pilar and Brooks are gonna have to house break you,” the woman said.
    “Who?” he asked.
    “Pilar and Brooks, your mates,” the woman said flippantly.
    What had she said, his mates? They were holding him hostage? What was going on? “Wait, where am I?”
    One of the women made a noise and said, “I am calling the main house.”
    “Do that. I am not sure he is all there yet, could be rabid,” the woman said.
    Calix groaned and rolled his head and opened his eyes. He was in a bedroom, and a nice one at that. It was not the cell he remembered. Maybe he had gotten out. He had thought he was dreaming before. The feelings he had about belonging and kinship. Calix only hoped he was with the Drekinn Pack, it was the only place he wanted to be.
    “Where am I?” he tried again and the woman turned back to him and narrowed her gaze at him.
    “You are safe,” the woman said.
    “Who are you?” he asked.
    “Oh, well I am Vivi, and this here is Shelly and Brenda, my best friends,” the woman said like he was supposed to know who the hell they were.
    Calix frowned. “I don’t know you.”
    “Is there a reason you should?” Vivi asked with a frown. “See, not all there, maybe he has brain damage. Maybe we should warn Pilar and Brooks,