Chapter 89 - MEET LAREMY

It had been a relatively peaceful week since we got back from Arkansas. It was busy as all fucking hell but it hadn't been riddled with danger and drama. Ever since the night that I met Kyle I swear my life has been nothing but a roller coaster ride.

I couldn't blame him though, not really. My life had never really been peaceful. It had been nothing but organized chaos since I moved to Boston. I might be able to manage it all and I might even convince myself that everything was fine. It wasn't though. It was far from it.

I was waiting in an empty office space with Kyle. It was the place where he had wanted me to open up my new 'business'. He was really hoping that I would agree to do all of this. He was really pushing hard for it.

I knew his reasons, I really did. It's just that I wasn't so sure about it. He wanted to keep me close. Not to tether me down really, I didn't think that was it. No, I think he was just worried about me while I was pregnant.

After what had happened recently I really couldn't blame him for being paranoid. I just hoped that his worrywart behavior didn't last. At least where I was concerned. When the baby was born he was more than welcome to direct all of that attention and worry toward the child so he could leave me alone and in peace.

Anyway, all of that wasn't the point that we were here for. I was letting myself get distracted. I was getting distracted easily lately and that wasn't necessarily a good thing. I needed to focus and get back to being the real me.

The reason we were here was to have a meeting about the future detective agency. We wanted all the parts to be here, the newly added Bastian and Laremy included. Well, I guess Kyle was newly added as well but he was here before them and, well, he was my mate so that didn't count.

The office space we were waiting in had been mostly emptied when the last company left but there were a few saw horses and large wooden boxes that we could use to sit on. Laremy was the only one not here yet, and I was starting to get a little bit impatient while waiting for him.

EZ and I were almost sitting in the same position only in different places. I could see Bastian where he was perched himself on one of the saw horses, his feet up on the other. EZ was sitting across his lap and he had wrapped his arms around my tiny pseudo brother.

Kyle was currently sitting in a similar fashion though he was sitting on one large wooden box with his feet up on the one that was in front of him. Me? I was sitting the same way EZ was. I was across Kyle's lap while he wrapped his arms around me.

I was going to have to start asserting my dominance soon. I was an Alpha too and I didn't like to see other people trying to take charge of me all that often. I would let it slide for now though. He could have his moments right now. He seemed to be in a sort of honeymoon phase right now and it was kind of sickeningly adorably sweet.

I had just heard the elevator ding and was able to detect the scent of someone new on the floor with us. It was Laremy, I had met him twice before so I knew his scent by now, it wasn't anything that I didn't already expect.

No, that unexpected happened when EZ jumped to his feet off of Bastian's lap. For a second I thought he had remembered who Laremy really was and that he was going to be really angry with me. 

That was until I saw how happy EZ looked and the look of pure longing filling his eyes.

"What is that wonderful smell?" EZ asked as he looked toward the elevators.

"What is it?" I asked him with a confused tilt of the head.

"EZ? What's going on?" Bastian looked worried as he stared at EZ.

It was clear to see what it was that had Bastian all worried. There was no mistaking the look that was on EZ's face. It was the look of someone that had just found their mate. The thing is, EZ had just mated with Bastian.

So what was happening here? I knew that EZ and Laremy had come face to face before and this hadn't happened then. Why then, was EZ mating with him now?

There had also been the fact that the moment Laremy noticed EZ on the floor, by scent alone since he hadn't been able to see him yet, he appeared to have stopped.

"What is going on?" Bastian sounded hurt with tears brimming in his eyes. "Ezekiel?" He had his hands outstretched toward the man that he had just been holding.

EZ was standing stock still as he looked toward the elevators. I could hear that Laremy had started to move again, most likely he had been spurred on by Bastian words. Soon, I was able to watch as Laremy turned around the partition separating the area we were sitting in and the elevators as he walked closer and closer to us.

The moment that Laremy saw EZ his face lit up. It looked like he had just been told he had won the lottery.

"It is you." The grin that was on his face showed how happy he was. "I had hoped when I smelled that intoxicating scent that it was you. This is amazing."

"Wait a minute, Laremy. What is going on here?" I asked him as I too stood up, Kyle following me smoothly. The only one still sitting was Bastian who seemed to be having some kind of breakdown.

"What are you talking about Jacy?" He smiled broadly, showing me perfectly white teeth with no evidence of his fangs in sight. "Isn't it obvious?"

"Well, to me it looks like you have mated with EZ here." I leveled him with a firm stare.

"That's exactly what has happened." Laremy looked like he couldn't be happier. "I knew working with you was going to be very beneficial for me."

"But that's impossible, Laremy." I objected immediately.

"Why is it? Because I am a vampire?" Laremy looked angered for a moment but that was when Bastian leapt to his feet and grabbed only EZ's hand.

"NO!" Bastian screeched at him. "It's impossible because he is already my mate."

Bastian's eyes were red when he angrily roared these words. Laremy was looking at him with a horrified expression. And all the while, EZ was just grinning. He was looking back and forth between the two of them like there was something amazing going on.

"EZ?" I called out to him, trying to find out exactly what all of this really was. "What are you feeling right now?" I had to know. I had to try and figure out what in the fucking hell was going on here.

"What do I feel?" He looked confused. "I feel like I am with my mate." His smile returned for a moment, but then the fighting started.

It Looked like I was watching some weird professional tug of war contest but my best friend and pseudo brother was the damn rope.

"You are with your mate. I am your mate." Bastian tugged on EZ's hand.

"No!" Laremy grabbed EZ's other hand and pulled him toward his chest. "I am his mate. I can hear the celestials singing for us now as they bind us for eternity.

"You must be hearing my Goddess and her disciples then because they have blessed me and EZ with an eternal love that will never die.

"Stop usurping on my moment. I am his mate." Laremy yelled back at Bastian.

The two of them literally kept pulling EZ back and forth between them. When was this going to end? And, was EZ going to lose a limb or something?

I wanted to intervene but I didn't know what to do. I had never seen this happen before. People don't usually have two mates. They get one mate for their life and that was it. Some of them never even meet their mate and have to settle for love without the involvement of fate.

Here was EZ though, smiling as grinning as he looked between the two men fighting over him. He looked like he was enraptured by the both of them. This was going to be trouble. Interesting as well, but also troublesome. I just hoped that EZ wouldn't be the one getting hurt in this situation. I wouldn't tolerate either of these men hurting him in any way. Be it emotional or physical.. And right now it looked like it was going to be physical.