Chapter 64 64. Bad feeling
Tabitha’s POV
“Head to the garden.”
My whole body jerks and the sandwich almost slips from my hands. Holy shit! This whole thought communicating thing is getting out of hand. I have a feeling that I’ll have a heart attack one of these days if they keep popping their voices inside my head in the randomest moments.
Should I even bother following Jace’s little order? Maybe I should just lock myself inside my room until dinner. But then, if I do that, they will come find me anyway. If I go and meet them, I at least get to choose how the conversation starts. Besides, I need to ask them about this whole… mind-talking thing. I can’t keep flinching every time one of their voices barges into my skull.
So I take the sandwich with me, and head out to the garden. Of course, the four of them are already there, lounging around the table as if they’d been waiting the entire time. Sighing, I stand beside the empty chair and eye each of them warily.
“Slept well?” Jace asks with that lazy grin of his.
I shoot him a look. “Please tell me I’m losing my mind and I’m not actually hearing your voices inside my head.”
Reed’s lips curl into a playful smile. “We were hoping you’d say that. Sit. Don’t panic.” His voice threads through my skull.
“Ugh! You’re doing it again! Stop it!” I grumble, stroking my temples.
“Sit, Tabitha. And we’ll explain things to you,” Luca says in a calm voice.
I reluctantly slump on the empty chair. “Now what?”
Luca rests his clasp fingers on the chair as if he’s in a business meeting. “As you already know, you are mated with us, Tabitha…”
I raise a brow. “Okay…?”
“When a bond forms between mates, certain things come with it. One of them is the ability to share a mindlink.”
“Mindlink…” I echo, my mind reeling.
“Mated pairs are two souls bound as one. In your case, it’s a little different, you’re bound to all of us, and we’re bound to you. That bond creates what we call a mindlink. It lets mates speak to each other without words. But it’s more than just that. Through the link, you can sense when one of us is in danger… sometimes even feel exactly what the other is feeling. The stronger the bond grows, the stronger the link becomes.”
“B-But I’m human! How is that possible?” I croak.
“The mindlink is a gift from the Moon Goddess to her chosen pairs,” Reed drawls, lazily sprawled on his chair. “It doesn’t matter if one of them is human. As long as the bond ties you to a werewolf, the link will form. Since you’re bonded to four of us, who happen to be werewolves through and through, that makes the mindlink more than possible.”
Come to think of it, I’ve always wondered how my mom and dad seemed so in sync, like they could read each other’s minds without saying a word. My father was human, but my mom’s a she-wolf… so maybe that bond between them, that mindlink, was what made their connection feel almost unshakable.
“Okay…” I draw in a slow breath, trying to wrap my head around it. “But why is this only happening now when our supposed mate bond has been existing for over a month?”
“Like I said, the mindlink grows stronger as the mate bond does. After what happened yesterday—which we all enjoyed by the way—the bond deepened and that’s why the link finally manifested,” Luca replies in an even tone.
I blush. I expected consequences after sucking their cocks, but I never imagined it would lead to something like this. If what Luca is saying is true, that means the mate bond between the five of us has gotten stronger than it did before.
That means it’ll be harder to break it now.
I briefly close my eyes. Before, the bond felt like a flimsy thread tucked somewhere in the back of my mind, thin enough to ignore, fragile enough that I thought I could snap it if I ever figured out how. But now… it’s thicker, stretched deeper, weaving through me like a rope I can’t untangle. Almost tangible. Almost alive. I feel their presence pulsing through it, pulling me closer and reminding me who I belong to.
“There’s something else you need to know about the mindlink, Tabitha.” Evren’s voice pulls me back from my thoughts.
I turn to him with a frown. “Why do I have a bad feeling about this?”
“The mindlink doesn’t just serve as a way for us to speak in each other’s heads,” he says calmly. “It bridges our souls in more ways than one.”
I groan and press my fingers to my temple. “Luca already said that. Souls, one bond, blah blah blah—I’m barely keeping up as it is.”
The brothers trade looks. Then Jace leans forward, eyes locked on me. “I don’t think you understand, Tabi. Mated pairs are meant to be connected. Meant to be one. And the stronger the bond gets, the more they crave each other. They ache to be close. They hunger to mark each other.”
My stomach knots. “And you’re saying…?”
“Every bond is different.” Jace shrugs. “Some are weaker, some easier to break. But ours isn’t like that. Ours is made of all of us bound to you, and you to us. It’s made of four souls connected to yours. That makes it stubborn and stronger than anything else.”
I narrow my eyes. “I’m still not seeing the point.”
“Were you turned on yesterday, Tabitha?” His lips curve into a wicked smirk. “Forget about it. Because now that the mindlink is in place and the bond has grown, you’re not just going to want us. You’re going to crave us. You’ll burn for us until you let us claim you.”
“W-What?”
“We already own a piece of you, Tabitha,” Jace murmurs. “The rest of you is coming with us, whether you want it or not.”