Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
“What’s happening here isn’t trivial, trust me. This is big, but still really fractured, nothing makes sense yet.”
“Oh, there you are! Everyone is wondering where you snuck off too.”
Oliver and I both jump at Lenny’s words. “Better walk home with me then, you don’t want them smelling her on you now. They are already not stable.”
“What is going on?! Who isn’t stable?”
“Your twins are having a rough time fighting the control. They are, however, doing better than the Alpha. But their possessiveness is at an all time high.”
“What control? Lenny, what’s going on?”
“I thought you would have figured it out by now. All three of them are being controlled. My guess is they ingested something along with a spell. I bet the boys only got a half dose each, which is why they seem to be mostly conscious, but still addled.”
“What? Who would do that?”
“I thought you were smart, girl. Who do you think? It worked for her Daddy to gain the control he doesn’t deserve, why wouldn’t she use it to gain the Alpha’s she doesn’t deserve. Now, we need to go and take a very specific route that will help us wear off your scent.”
“Speaking of scent, I need those shirts. I want to know if your scent will bring them back to normal. Please.
“Fine. Give me a minute.”
At this point I’m willing to try anything.
I take the shirts inside and switch them out for Jena’s and mine. I seal the bags so they don’t smell me on him. Lenny made it sound like that would be a really bad thing. I walk back outside and hand the shirts to Lenny.
“If they do find them, they won’t do anything to Lenny but question her. If they are as deranged as you both are making them sound, they might hurt you tell a confused Oliver.
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Then he just nods. “Can you stop by tomorrow? I have my next assignment from Elena and today was the first time I have been able to do magic since we moved out. I think I need you.”
I look back at the little fire I made.
“What you need, what we all need is to be together This break in our friendship is going to get us all killed if we don’t fix it fast.”
I nod and move to hug him, but stop. I can’t risk putting my scent on him and just shake my head and take a deep breath. “I will be back tomorrow, probably in the evening if can sneak away. I’ll see you in passing, on patrols in the morning.”
He winks and I smile.
He and Lenny walk around the back yard and toward the pack house. It will be a thirty minute walk from here, but I think that’s one of the reasons she does it, so our scents can be dulled by the breeze. She also doesn’t come in or make contact when she can help it.
I head inside to tell my team what Lenny and Oliver think about the whole situation.
“Well now that we have some information, I guess their behavior makes a little more sense.”
Lil shrugs as we dig into dinner. “It doesn’t make them any less d*ckish.”
“The Alpha said he had his reasons, but you were on the right track. What did that mean?” Wyatt asks.
We have had the same debate every night during dinner since we’ve moved in here. So much of that whole situation doesn’t make sense.
“There are just too many things going on right now. We can’t figure them all out on our own.”
Jena says.
“And yet, we have to figure out which ones are more important and some solutions may lead to others.”
I rub my temples, slowly losing my appetite the more we talk.
“Well you and I can work the magic angle a little more, since Lenny is convinced and all but confirmed the Cunninghams have the Alpha under some kind of control and more than likely the twins now too.”
“How do we do that, if we can’t get near them? We didn’t notice anything before and we were all basically on top of each other in the packhouse.”
“That’s the thing. I think we were too close to everything and none of us ever thought about anyone using magic here so it wasn’t something we were looking for. Typically speaking, wolves don’t have or use magic. You are the first shifter I have ever seen that can manipulate magic like a witch. Now that we know we need to look for magic, we can approach it differently.”
I nod in agreement. “I will try to get a message to Osiston to get Elena here sooner rather than later, something is wrong with our ability to mindlink warriors outside the pack. I thought she was supposed to be here putting a spell around the pack with her coven, but I haven’t heard anything, and it’s been like four months. My first thought is magic. I can’t imagine the Rogues have stopped their efforts after that small attack was a disaster for them.”
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