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Thane
“Please tell me you didn’t blow off the side of a damn mountain Cyrus.”
“Side is a bit of a stretch.”
“I’m going to murder you. This is it. This it the point we needed to reach for me to be absolutely certain I’m going to kill you. Office. Now.” I mind- linked and feel the growing ache in my head turn into a full–blown brain rupture thinking about all the extra work this will cost us.
“I need to go to the office and find out exactly the damage the two of them caused.” I kiss Ayla on the forehead and pull away, hating that this seems to happen more frequently now. It can’t be like this when she goes into labor. It just can’t.
“You need to go make sure they are okay. They could be hurt!” Ayla is more concerned than she should be. She isn’t as used to Cyrus as I am. He’s been unhinged, reckless, borderline terrifying and fearless his entire life. Fortunately, he seems to escape death enough that I don’t think anything could put him down.
“Trust me, it would take a lot more than explosives and a mountain slide to take out Cyrus and he wouldn’t let anything happen to Raven so
last shifter you should ever worry about when it comes to staying alive.
they’re both fine. Cyrus is the
I kiss Ayla and pull away again, leaving her to her indecisiveness about paint colors as I head into the pack house. I have a feeling I will be getting some work done waiting for Cyrus to find his way to my office.
An hour later Cyrus walks in noticeably without his mate. I welcome the break from paperwork, assignment sheets, and the last thing I put off, the payment of the celebration of life. Not that I don’t want to pay it, I just don’t want to go there right now mentally.
“I don’t even know where to begin.” I sigh with my hand under my chin, leaning back studying my best friend. Newly mated looks good on him. He looks less…haunted in his eyes and seems to be happier. He also has become a larger pain in my ass.
He takes a seat in front of my desk. “You tell me, it’s all your fault.” Cyrus leans back in his chair, a challenging look in his gaze.
“My fault? How is whatever it is that you did my fault?” I don’t think I can describe how confused I am and how high my eyebrows must be.
“You know me. I know that you know me.” His answer doesn’t help with my confusion any.
“I know that I know you and that you know that I know So, WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH YOU BLOWING UP THE MOUNTAIN?”
“You know how I get with explosives. I have a track record, but you let me blow stuff up anyway. Sounds like a YOU problem.”
“A ME problem? A ME PROBLEM? I DIDN’T BLOW UP A DAMN MOUNTAIN!”
“I didn’t blow it up. I made a hole like you asked, then some aftershocks happened and then a thing with a thing afterward. Point is, I’m technically an overachiever in this situation. You asked for one hole and now you have two.” He runs his fingers through his dark curls and leans further back in his chair like he doesn’t have a care in the world.
I’ll murder him.
“I was thinking that the staff should have their own separate building for living quarters. It wouldn’t need to be big but then they could rest without hearing all the noises from the heat rooms and the Alpha’s could just call them with needs and keep them updated.” Ayla mind–links me, interrupting my murderous thoughts.
“So, you want two buildings?” I asked, afraid Lalready knew the answer.
“Yes, and maybe a pool.”
“You’re lucky that having another hole in the ground won’t be a problem.” I groan, wiping my hand over my face and grabbing the top of my head, closing my eyes and trying not to lose it.
“Oh really? Why is that?” Cyrus asks and I open my eyes to see him grinning.
“Apparently Ayla now wants a separate building for the staff and potential a pool. You wouldn’t know anything about that would you?” I shake my head and roll my eyes, knowing I have been outplayed by him.
1/2
11:30 AM
I know That You Know That I know That You Know That I know That You know that I know
“You don’t say…” he smirks, and I can’t help but smile and shake my head. I’ll do anything for Little Wolf.
“Well done, Cyrus.”
“Now that you’re here, do you have any updates for me?” I haven’t heard from any of my circle that we made any progress on the burner phone number somewhere in our pack and I don’t think I will be able to settle down until I have an answer.
nothing. Tyler is still doing his thing with his team.”
“Wonderful.” I sigh again and put my feet up on my desk. My brain hurts too much to continue with the paperwork at this point.
“We need to sit and think of potential suspects. Maybe we can come up with a list to narrow it down.” Cyrus suggestion is sound, although I have done it in my head a million times.
“Who in the pack has reason to want me dead?”
“Who in the pack had reason to come after your father? Your sister’s abduction was before your role as alpha.”
“Maybe they didn’t take her to get to my father. Perhaps someone in our pack linked to the trafficking ring chose to abduct her because she was the Alpha’s daughter, for the irony. She wasn’t the only teen pup then; she was targeted for her name.
“Still could be to get at your father.” Cyrus now places his boots up on my desk, the both of us deep in thought.
“The shifter responsible hated my father regardless of if he was the target or not. Their connection to the ring would not exist otherwise. The /entire pack was aware of his moral stance when he learned about other shifters disappearing.”
We sit and think for a while, randomly bringing up names of shifters from within the pack but nothing makes sense and none of it sounds like it is the correct trail to go down.
“Who here is left that was associated with my father’s beta?” I ask Cyrus to try to think of any others that may have flown under the radar.
“I can’t think of any. You either killed them or they fled.” I stare off into the corner of the office, my mind racing a mile a minute. There is something we are overlooking.
?” I pull my legs off my desk and sit up a little bit, holding the arms of my chair and thinking. There’s something
“What about outside of our close. A connection within my grasp, I can feel it.
Cyrus sits up, pulling his legs off on their own accord and we did
esk as well. “Alissa said she interviewed all the workers of that brothel, and they all stated they were there
single pack member there.”
have a
Cyrus is clearly thinking what I am thinking and that is worth investigating.
“Too bad I killed Kian so early. I could have gotten some more answers out of him I think.”
