I lifted my head.
“But your beast so looked like her, when she appeared, something fractured in me,” he whispered.
I couldn’t bear this.
“This isn’t whatIwant to talk about.”
Again, speaking swiftly, he offered, “Whatdo you want to talk about?”
“Could you not control it?Howyou were withMom.Howyou were with me?”
“Your mother and you are two different stories,Laura.”
“I need to understand how a male acts when his mate is in danger,”Iground out.
His expression infused with understanding, and for the first time in both of our lives, it became fatherly as he let out a long, “Ahhhh.”
“Dad,”Isnapped.
“Laura, it’s excruciating,” he stated. “Females, they bear other burdens.Males, this…ifI’mreading it right, what you’re asking about, thenIcan tell you.Rightnow,PrinceAlekseiis in the deepest pit of all the hells.”
My heart lurched.
My beast rolled.
My eyes raced to the door.
AndAlekseistalked through it.
I took one look at his face and…
Uh-oh.
Chapter40
Broken Glass
Ihad no chance to move or utter a word before he was in, he’d seized the tablet, andDad’sholo blinked out becauseAlekseihurled the tablet across the room.
It shattered against the wall, falling to the floor in bits.
I shot to my feet, shouting, “Aleksei!”
“Have you lost your mind?” he asked.
“Aleks—”
His torso spiked toward me, and he raged, “Haveyou lost your fucking mind?”
Keep calm and calm him.
Keep calm and calm him.
“I don’t know any fated mates.Ineeded to talk to him about having a mate,”Iexplained.
“You don’t know any fated mates?” he asked acidly.
“If you’re suggestingIshould have talked to you, right now, you aren’t really talking to me.”
