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She had gone to the kitchen and grabbed the leftover pasta that Frost had wanted for an after-meal snack.Although the shifters had a large appetite, it was nothing compared to Frost at that moment.She eyed Jade and the pasta when Jade sat next to her, but when she let a growl slip through her lips, Jade scooted a couple of feet away and dug in.
Distracting herself from the food she missed out on, she struggled to stand until Xander lifted her up, and she waddled over to see what was in the box.Silas had settled down from all the excitement and conversation, and as she approached the box, she felt some trepidation.No one truly knew she was here, or knew that she had found a mate in Xander.She had ordered a crib and wondered whether they had misread the address or whether she had been the one to make the mistake.But she grew nervous when she glanced around and couldn’t find a shipping label on the box, just a card taped haphazardly to the side.
Ripping the card off, she opened the envelope.As she dug it out, her eyes spotted the signature.Anzû.So he knew that Xander would figure out the links between the mercenaries and his company, Nightfall.She dropped the card onto the floor and stepped back quickly from the box.
Instantly alert, the other’s in the room closed in on the box as Frost moved away.Silas picked up on her distress and with the sensations tingling through her, she could feel that he put an invisible barricade around the box.
“Huh.Well, Silas put a barrier around the box and he won’t let anyone near it.”
Ara stepped forward and placed her hand on Frost’s stomach.“Silas, I can open the box in your protective bubble if you let me in.”
Okay.
Ara’s eyes widened as she was able to open the box with the barrier still in place, and Frost blew out a relieved breath.But confusion and fear swamped her as Ara lifted a bouncer with a colorful pinwheel suspended above it.
“Destroy it.”Frost’s voice dropped to a deadly whisper.
Ara immediately crushed it and then managed to pulverize it until there was nothing but dust left, which she put back in the box and closed it.
“Silas, can you remove your barrier so I can take the box outside?” Kai reached for it slowly and when he gripped the side, he walked the box out the front door, taking it somewhere out of sight, before coming back in.He shut and locked the door.
From the corner of her eye, she spotted Xander pick up the note from the floor.“He must’ve had us surveilled from a distance, enough to know that Frost is pregnant by sight alone.”
“What does the note say?”Her curiosity got the better of her.
“I’ll see you soon.P.S.Tell Ghost I said hi.”
