Her blue eyes flicker up to me as I walk in. “Have you heard this?” She scoffs

I dip my head. I had only heard the end of Brax’s speech, “Though I didn’t need to. I had wondered if it was a possibility. But it’s not that. This proves it.” I pass Neah the book that was tucked under my arm.

Damien, Eric and I had been back to Klaus’s house because I knew he had been digging into Neah’s past and I had wondered if there was a connection between Neah, Samara and Cooper especially after Samara was able to link Neah in her sleep. But there wasn’t.

She flicks open the book and folds out the pages. Klaus had been busy and while her father’s side of the family was limited. Her mother’s side wasn’t. There was name after name that eventually went all the way back to Aldous Kitson and then some.

Where Klaus had managed to gather so much information from was beyond me, but it was what he was good at.

“Wow.” She whispers as her fingers trail over the family tree. “This is… It goes all the way…” “It goes back centuries. You know Klaus likes to research.” I smile at her.

I let her study the names and after a few minutes she frowns. “There’s no mention of Samara or Cooper, that’s a good thing right.”

“Yes and no. It means you are not tied to them, thankfully. But it also means we are not making any moves in finding out who they are or what they want. Samara is detached and seems to have a screw loose from the return of her abilities and seems to know nothing other than Cooper sendi9ng her here and even that information is limited.”

“At least I don’t have another half sibling popping up out of nowhere!” Neah tuts and I see the way Brax looks at me. I glare back and he makes his excuses to leave as I sit next to my mate.

She rests her head on my shoulder and her hand snakes onto my thigh. “Is Klaus okay?”

“Yes. He hasn’t managed to get anything else useful out of Cooper yet, but he is working on it.”

“We can’t leave him there.”

“It won’t be forever. Klaus will come back home.” I drape an arm around her shoulders and pull her in closer. “I will make sure of that.”

“What if….”

“It’s not an option, Neah. He has said it himself. He will never accept Cooper.”

She falls silent. “Don’t lose control.” She whispers

“You listen to Brax too much.”

Her eyes peer up at me. “What does that mean?”

“It means you don’t need to worry. We will figure it out.” I kiss the top of her head and she

buries herself into me.

“Evrin shifted again. And Brax says he has his Lycan spirit.”

‘Crap. Aero mutters and I ignore him. It wasn’t necessarily a problem.

“Was Evrin okay?”

Neah bobs her head, “He did it in his sleep. I left him sleeping as a little Lycan. I didn’t want to wake him.”

‘In his sleep? Aero mutters. ‘How is that possible, is that even a thing?”

‘I don’t know bu it is now.’ I mutter back.

“Evrin will be fine.” I tell Neah and she sighs.

“We don’t know what this means. Does it mean he is more powerful than Logan? Does it mean he is the next true Alpha? Logan is first born, I thought that is how it works.”

“You are worrying too much. Right now, he is a baby who has only just started walking.” I pull her on to my lap so that she is facing me, her legs straddle my thighs. “But it’s not just him you are worried about, is it? Me, Klaus, Maddie, Damien and probably so many more.” I tuck a strand of her dark behind her ear and her blue eyes lock on mine. “It’s probably one of the hardest things about being an Alpha. You feel responsible for everyone else. Just as one issue settles, something else comes up. It’s a never ending cycle. I grew up expecting that, you didn’t. Though you have adapted to it fairly well.”