Possession (The Mate Games 3)

“Are you sure about that?”

God, I was going to kill Kingston if he didn’t shut up. Now was not the time.

Every eye in the room was trained on me.

“You said you were with child,” Nord accused.

“I am.”

“You made us believe it was our son’s.”

“It could be.”

“You mean to tell me you are my son’s mate and still you took others into your bed? That you bear their marks as well as his? This is absurd.”

I couldn’t help it. I laughed and held out my arms. “Welcome to my fucking life, Your Majesty. I don’t know what to tell you. Fate saw fit to give me more than one. I didn’t go looking for them. They found me.”

“She speaks the truth.”

I glanced to my left as the older of the two strangers took a step forward.

“How can that be, Cora?” Lina asked.

“Multiple mates are not all that uncommon,” she said with a shrug.

“It is for us.”

Lina tossed her husband an annoyed look. “You were the one who told me our souls are made of multiple parts. Why couldn’t Sunday find hers in more than just our son? Don’t be so stuffy, old man.”

“Careful, wife. I may be old, but I can still best you.”

“We’ll see about that.”

The obvious love they had for each other made me smile. I hoped one day Alek and I would be just like them. Assuming, of course, we ever settled the matter of these missing memories.

“How can we get his memories back?” I was done pussyfooting around the issue. Alek needed to know me again. If anything was ever going to be normal for us, that much I knew was true.

“You can’t,” Quinn said. “They’re gone. Every single memory he had of you was destroyed when I took them.”

“What? You destroyed them?”

“It was an accident. But I’d erase you again if it meant saving him.” She raised her chin in a defiant gesture, and my vision went red. I took a running step forward, only to be brought up short by an arm around my waist.

“Let me go,” I snarled, thrashing in Kingston’s arms.

His mouth was at my ear, his voice pitched low and just for me. “Not gonna happen, Sunshine. You’re outnumbered and carrying my pup. I’m doing this for your own good.”

Nord’s sharp intake of breath filled the room. “Berserker. It’s not possible.”

“Oh, eslkan mín, how quickly you forget your mate,” Lina murmured.

“You becoming a berserker was a miracle. The odds of it happening again are...”

Lina’s eyes narrowed as if a thought had just occurred to her. “How did the two of you manage to perform the Transference?”

“What’s that?” Alek spoke, his voice calming the fury in my blood.

“Well that answers my question. Nord, this has to mean more. She’s bound to him. She’s taken on echoes of his berserker...”