Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
I finally got her to look up at Oliver’s back and explained that he is our very brave guard and he is here to help me keep her safe, cause it’s always better to have two warriors working together than be by yourself. Then we shifted a little so she could see the twins working around the window, checking the entire thing before opening it and looking out. I’m trying to explain what they are doing so it takes her mind off of the idea of being scared and helps her focus on what they are doing to solve the mystery.
I always found that if I could break something down logically, then it became less scary. It seems to be the same for Lily. Both the twins are hanging out of my very large window. I don’t have a balcony or any kind of ledge to step out onto, but this look is funny to Lily so we keep talking about it to make her giggle.
It doesn’t take the guys long to look around then come back in and secure my window again. Then Kota closes the thick curtains, something I have never done.
“Cam walks over and sits on my bed, opening his arms to Lily. She doesn’t even hesitate to crawl to him and let him bundle her on his lap. “I need to borrow Skylar for a couple of minutes. Can Oliver sit with you while we talk to her?” He brushes a lock of hair out of her face while she stares up at him, a little hero worship showing on her tiny face. She nods at him and he smiles one of his blinding smiles. She hugs him around the neck then turns back to me.
“Come here, let me tuck you in and I’ll be back soon.”
She crawls back to the head of my bed and under the covers. I tuck her in and move to grab a sweatshirt out of my closet. It is so much cooler when I don’t have her little body radiating heat next to me.
When I come back out she has already talked Oliver into laying next to her. He’s got his head propped against the headboard, one arm tucked behind his head the other has her tucked into his side.
It’s cute to see these big, tough guys just soften with a look from a cute little girl. I don’t think any of them could ever tell her no.
She’s already back to sleep, so I follow Cam and Kota out of my room. I figured they just want to talk to me out of earshot, although I don’t know why they couldn’t do that over the mindlink, now that we are walking down the stairs. Something is off, but neither are talking so I just keep following.
We head all the way down to the first floor and into Alpha Lucas’ office. When we enter, they close the door, but I notice we aren’t alone. Alpha Lucas and Luna Ava are both here too. Now I am nervous.
“How long has your team been working together?” Cam asks moving to stand next to his dad behind the desk, Kota moves to his other side. I can’t read their faces and that makes me worried. They didn’t leave me out of the mindlink so I could focus on Lily, they suspect me or someone on my team of something bad. It dawned on me that for the first time neither of them held my hand on the way down here.
We are not friends right now. I’m being interviewed, like a suspect. I don’t know what they found, but now I have to defend myself and my team and everything I do and say is being scrutinized. My whole posture changes, my mind shifts as if I was debriefing with Warrior Osiston after a mission. I stand straight, assuming attention with my chin held high, hands clasped behind my back and focusing on a spot in the wall just above Alpha Lucas’ head.
I take a slow breath in, then begin. “Wyatt, Lillian, Nathaniel and I met at trials two summers ago. They were selected for Elite Warrior training and went through the branding process before I arrived. They helped me catch up with the training since I joined the program after their session started. Jena and I met while we were both held captive by Mike and the Rogue King’s army near the University of Maine, while I was undercover with Wilhemina and Warrior Nickolas.”
“Heads up. Sh*t is going down. I’m down with the Alpha, Luna, Cameron and Dakota being questioned.”
I mindlink my team without so much as pausing in my story to my pack leaders.
“Mina and I received partial Warrior brands so Nickolas could keep track of us since the end goal was for one or both of us to be captured. The brand was applied by Gentry, Warrior Nickolas’ mate, shortly before she was captured by the Rogue King’s guys. Jena and I were able to eventually escape and Warrior Osiston and Alpha King Reginald decided that she needed to stay with the warriors while we research the outcome of the survivors from her pack.”
“What the f*ck!” Both Jena and Lil say together.
“Stay put for now, they don’t know I can talk to you and them at the same time. They are asking about our team. I don’t think they suspect me, but I don’t know what’s going on yet. Quick recon from where you are. There was noise outside my bedroom window, start there.”
“Got it boss.”
Nathaniel responds.
I take another deep breath, appearing to collect my thoughts. I have to give my friends time to figure out what the twins found. “Jena and I both suffer from some PTSD from our time in captivity. We seem to do better when we are close together, we share a room at the training compound and typically bunk together when we are on missions. The five of us have been working successful missions under the direction of Warrior Osiston, Warrior Nickolas, Warrior Thomas and Alpha Reggie since Jena and I fully physically recovered.”
“How well do you know your teammates? Do you have their backgrounds, histories?” Alpha Lucas asks, staying stoic. He’s in Alpha mode.
“Well, for obvious reasons, I have an extensive background on Jena. She and I share a trauma, hers is far deeper than mine.”
I look at Luna Ava, who heard Jena’s outburst to Kaley. She gives me a little nod. “When Jena was captured, Mike thought that breeding with an Alpha female would give him a strong heir. When we finally traced all of her events back to her pack being attacked, we found that he had her about a year. So when they caught me he had been r*ping her almost daily for at least ten months. My time with her allowed me to witness up close and personal his violation of her. I got her out of that situation, we have a bond, she is loyal to me.”
“Anything?”
“Nothing yet. It took me a minute to get a drone outside. We have warriors outside our rooms now. We are being observed.”
Nathaniel whispers, even though we are talking through our warrior link.
“Give me a job, somebody. I’m starting to feel claustrophobic now.”
“I’m stuck too. I am with pups in the living room, but Delta Gwen just showed up. I have a clear sight to the front door, and I can hear into the kitchen. Nothing on the first floor other than the Delta.”
Lil reports.
“Wyatt, do you have a computer?” Jena asks. “I can’t do anything. Mateo is here with me pacing the room. He’s super pissed. Not sure what has him angry though. Him being trapped with me. Being forced to watch me like a prisoner or knowing you are being questioned, Midge. Not sure what they said to him. He hasn’t spoken to me yet.”
“I have my laptop, talk me through what you’re thinking.”
“First, surround yourself with blankets. Muffle the sound of typing.”
I drowned out her explanation to log onto the security cameras that they installed everywhere to catch Kaley and her dad up to something.
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