NovelEnglishChapter 453 Lanie I almost didn't recognize the woman rushing across the room to hurtle herself against me. My scream rose, joining hers, turning to a squeal at the last second as my best friend Mindy huggedso hard she squeezed the breath out of my lungs. Laughing, crying a little, I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her back as hard as I could.
"Lanie! Goddess, you look so good! I mean, you always looked good, but you look..." Mindy heldat arms' length, then huggedagain. "You look like a Luna." Her words tickled my earlobes. "I am the Luna." Mindy's laughter had an edge of tears as she pulled away again. "I was going to say you looked older, but I thought that might cout wrong." "I am also older," I said. "You look good, too." We both hugged each other again, dancing in place. I'd put the thoughts of my bestie entirely out of my head for so long, incapable of giving myself permission to miss her. Now that cflooding back intowith the force of slamming into a brick wall. I wanted to cry, laugh, scream, jump up and down, run around the room...I settled for hugging her hard one more tand then stepping back to take another good, long look at her.
"I'm home," I said.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtMindy's eyes welled with tears. "It's been a long time, bestie. Don't you dare ever go off like that again." "I hope I never have to." I knew better than to make a promise that I wasn't sure I'd be able to keep.
The High Council had been soundly and permanently defeated, but I'd seen way too much out there in the big world beyond Constantine to ever think there was no possibility that something else might happen. I pushed those thoughts away for now, though. Whatever might happen in the future, for right now, we were all safe and sound.
"I'm starving," Mindy stated. "I'm going to get myself one of those buns and scoffee and probably a whole plate of other goodies... The buffets here are amazing, please tellyou're not making any changes to the way they do breakfast here!" "That's the second tthis morning already that someone's askedif I'm going to make any changes to the way things have been running." I followed her to the buffet so we could both load up our plates. "Why is everyone assuming that?" Mindy looked over her shoulder atas she piled her plate with cheesy scrambled eggs. "Well, Gabriela had her ways of managing the mansion, and when you all were gone, the mansion chatelaine took over. Now that you're back, as Luna, you get to decide how things work. Oh, Goddess, they've got blueberry muffins today." "I promise to keep the muffins," I said with a laugh as I watched my friend add an enormous muffin to her plate. Mindy gavea serious look. "I'm so glad you're back, and not just because you said that." We both laughed and carried our plates to the table and took our seats. She dove into her food at once. I'd never seen Mindy eat like that, but before I could ask if she might have a special reason for her hunger, I heard heavy footsteps thundering toward us.
My three mates barreled into the room, Xander in the lead with Mason hot on his heels and Zane bringing up the rear. When they sawand Mindy at the table, our forks paused halfway to our mouths in surprise, Xander let out a grunt.
"Damn it, Lanie. You scared the shit out of us with that scream!" Mindy blinked, looking at the three men. They were all familiar to me, but I tried to see them through her eyes. They'd all aged, too, of course, but they'd also gotten-" "By the Moon," Mindy breathed. "They're huge!" .
I laughed, watching my mates relax when they saw I wasn't in danger. They had all gotten bigger. Thicker in cheer.
the arms and chests, legs like tree-trunks. My heart thudded with a sudden, fierce influx of love. It burned insidehot enough to flood my entire body with heat. .
Mindy turned towith wide eyes. "And they're all three mated with you. How do you...I mean..." .
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmShe coughed into her fist as her blush deepened. Mindy and I had shared most every detail of our lives when we were younger, so I could practically see the wheels spinning in her head now. I didn't need her to finish her sentence, but she leaned closer to whisper toanyway. .
"Fit," she finished. "How in the world do you all fit!" "Very nicely," I promised her in a low voice laced with laughter.
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I watched her gaze go beyond the three giant men stalking into the m dining room. She looked surprised then confused, then surprised again. She turned to me. .
"Who is that?"
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