Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee

217–Got Tricked

Before the conversation could go crazy, Lazlo had found the injections in Thiago‘s bag and convinced

everybody to take a shot before we discussed things. Christina and Zander took some time to

recover, whereas Maynard was fine due to him being alpha.

“What is going on? Are we doing drugs now?” Maynard asked as he rubbed his hand on Christina‘s bac

k to comfort her.

“These drugs are weak,” Zander

joined him, getting out of bed to shake his head and strengthen his grasp of reality. I wasn‘t in the mood

for jokes. My eyes were stuck on my phone. I wished I could get in contact with Thiago. Or Oswin resp

onds to my test to let me know how Thiago is feeling right now.

“These are to make sure the monster doesn‘t hear what we

are going to talk about now,” Lazlo explained, lacking energy. We were both extremely worried about T

hiago. And now that we knew he wasn‘t the

bad guy here, we both were guilty of breaking our promises and betraying him.

“Monster?” Christina and Maynard shared a glance and then

watched our faces. She even watched her brother‘s face to see if he knew about it.

“The one who had been marking girls,” Zander instantly jumped to explain that there was no new infor

mation.

“Guys, we can talk about it later. The food is getting cold,” Zander eyed us to not expose it before her.

I was done listening to them and ended up on the wrong path. This mess

could have been avoided if I had listened to my own head and confronted Thiago forthwith. I let my

mates have too much power over my thinking. It needs to stop.

“No! She is injected with the fluid, so she will be fine. None of

this conversation will reach the monster‘s ears anymore.” Lazlo agreed with me

and defended my decision to talk in front of Maynard and Christina.

“What is going on, you guys? Is there something we are not aware of?” Maynard questioned.

“Zander!” Christina grunted, elbowing Zander. We were sitting on the floor at this point in a circle.

“Good! Now deal with this,” Zander eyed me to deal with his mess.

“Thiago is not a monster.” I took a deep breath and announced, taking them off guard.

“Please keep going.” Maynard tilted his head, giving us a look of confusion.

“Things went down horribly on the island and we came to believe Thiago was

the monster who had been marking girls forcibly,” Lazlo said in a subtle tone, stealing eyes to hide the

guilt in them.

“Why would you think that? Just because he is a Lycan?” Christina disagreed with us. “It is crazy. You a

ll thought he would do something like that. Lycans are — out of control but only when they are shifted,”

she muttered angrily at us.

The fact that she

trusted Thiago more than his own mate was a tight slap against my cheek and all the claims I ever mad

e of loving Thiago.

“It is not

like we had all this information. We found out only a little, so we relied on it,” Lazlo defended himself wh

ile I just lowered my face in guilt.

“Oh, so my dear brother knew.” She turned to give him a quizzical glare.

“I mean, they dragged

me and promised me to not tell you anything,” Zander was literally dodging bullets by using us as

a shield.

“Umm! Sorry, we are already dealing with a lot right now. Don‘t get us into any more mess,” Lazlo snap

ped at Zander, who

was acting like Lazlo and I was the only ones who were running around bossing everyone.

“Wait! I mean, it is pretty obvious why you guys thought

that. What changed your mind?” Maynard, who always insisted that we believe him when he said that T

hiago was a monster, shrugged his shoulders.

It was then that Lazlo went on to explain everything to them. Including how we broke Thiago‘s heart.

“Oh, goodness!” Christina was the first one to express sorrow for Thiago. “How old are you guys, anyw

ay? You have powers. You could have confronted him and let him be over with it. It is not like

if he had tried to attack you, you couldn‘t defend yourself. What exactly were you guys doing while sittin

g on that information, huh? Cheating on him?” I understood her words perfectly. It did seem like that.

I didn‘t even want to defend myself against any accusations. I deserved every bit of it

for breaking someone‘s heart who didn‘t even care about his secret and exposing it to the worst people

to keep me safe.

“It is not like they did it on

purpose. They had a misconception.” Maynard defended us and it enraged Christina.“Of course, you wi

ll say that. You hate that poor guy because he stole your mate right under your nose.” we did not

want another couple to fight because of our mistakes, but it seemed like the conversation was headed t

hat way

“And why are you defending Thiago so much?” Maynard finally snapped at her and growled angrily.

“You are both right. Why are you two defending each other? Doesn‘t it

sound sketchy?” Zander, who wanted the argument to blow up so that Christina and Maynard can fight,

added fuel to the fire.

“Stop it!” I yelled at Zander. We were in a crisis, and

he was using these moments to break apart Maynard and Christina.

“Don‘t yell as if you are not at fault. I know why you wanted to get rid of Thiago so badly. Is that

why you have been running after my brother? You wanted a mate out of the picture who is restraining y

ou from tasting all your mates,” she yelled, and it hit me hard.

Wow! Is that how Thiago must be feeling, too?

“Hey, hey, she was not running after me. Together

we were trying to come up with a plan to stop Thiago from killing others,” Zander finally took things seri

ously. His sister let out a loud gasp before she muttered.

“If you truly wanted to help her, why didn‘t you take her to our library

and let her get more information on Lycans instead of making her believe there

was no more information about Lycans?” The mention of the library from her lips stunned Lazlo and

me.

Zander lied to us about the existence of the library.