Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
Are you two coming or not?”
Lil finally gets through to me.
Yep, we have an amendment to the plan.
What are you talking about? I’m kind of done with twists to the plan.”
Jena grumbles.
We have an additional passenger. It’s a new development and we are all sworn to secrecy.
Midge, enough with the riddles. Spit it out and get over here, I can smell at least ten wolves, meaning they run a patrol or hangout here for some reason. We need to find cover.
Sierra’s pregnant. Don’t let anything happen to her and don’t let anyone else know about it, including the guys. I think I am the only one who can smell it, but that doesn’t mean the Rogue King or Adrielle won’t know. And they will both use it against us if they find out.
I finish as we step through one at a time. I know they would make a half-assed effort to make her stay behind to protect her, but she is a warrior and carrying a child isn’t a good enough reason to stop what we are doing right now. We won’t have a home to raise our kids in if we don’t stop these two psychopaths. And she is safer with us than trying to make it back to the guys, who will be distracted at her coming back without us, causing more problems.
Their wolves both jump at Sierra, rubbing up against her and congratulating her. Zero fear or hesitations. This is what makes this group of women the best. Just because we are women isn’t going to stop us from doing what we need to do to protect our pack, including being on the front lines. We move about twenty feet into the cover of the trees, getting out of sight the best we can.
I can’t tell that anything’s different, so that’s good at least. We can hope it’s just you and your freak sense of smell.”
Jena laughs at me. But I give her a stern look. She should have had her heat by now. I wonder if she might be expecting too, but I notice my sense of smell is off here now that we have moved away from the border. I can’t smell Sierra’s scent at all anymore, or the others.
Magic’s being used against us right now, that’s for sure. Stay close.
They are all on high alert now and we walk forward. The grove is still a grove. I wasn’t sure what I expected walking through the veil of magic, a castle or creepy looking house at the very least, but it is still just the forest that we saw from the other side. Tight clusters of trees making small natural pathways through the trees. Looking around there are several paths, all leading toward the same point. I assume the center is what we will find if we follow.
Naturally, we veer off the beaten path parallel to what looks like the most used path and stalk through the brambles and bushes as close to the ground as possible.
Alright, now you’re just showing off. Do we all get the camouflage thing or is that just you and your mates?”
Jena mumbles at me.
I have no idea. I can’t even tell that we are turning it on and off. I can see you all, can you see me? What does it actually look like?
When you move you kind of shimmer, but if you stay really still, your fur blends in completely. I can still feel you though, I know exactly where you are, but I can’t smell anyone. I assume that’s how you know magic is being used against us.”
Lil follows up.
All of you try holding still, let’s see if you have the camo too, or maybe I can share it somehow.
They all crouch low, not moving a muscle except for their eyes constantly checking our surroundings. I can still see them like always, but it’s something we need to test with someone who is not me. I think about sharing the ability too, but I get nothing. I have no idea what my abilities allow me to do and not do out of the norm. It seems like some things are based on the situation and purely instinct. For some reason this magic affects my sense of smell like everyone else though. I don’t understand that, but I pack it in the figure out when we aren’t about to die’ part of my mind.
I can still see you, but that doesn’t mean it’s not working. Let’s keep going.
The trees begin to thin out as we creep along, making almost no noise. This was one of the most intense trainings we did. Being silent in our movements was sometimes the difference in life or death. We finally find an edge to the forest and what I see makes even my wolf’s jaw hit the ground.
It’s a compound. Not just any make-shift, temporary set up of tents, but a whole set of buildings. Where the hell did all of this come from and how did none of us know? Nikolas and Osiston have been running their own version of patrols trying to find the Rogue King and he really has been right under our nose the whole time. Is he that much smarter than we are? Or is this just several generations of planning coming to light? This is insane and we have a big problem.
The wolves we have been fighting are disposable, because he has at least a thousand more to follow up with. I wonder if they are all under a spell like the one Mike had been using at his camp or if there is something more here.
I link the guys and fill them in on what we found. It took a solid ten minutes and a full Royal Alpha command to get them to shut up long enough to listen after I told them we found the hideout. We took turns giving them all the details we could from our vantage point.
What about that boyfriend of yours, Little One? Is he there? Do you think he would help you from the inside if you found him?
I think Nikloas has a soft spot for Robbie after he brought Gentry back to us. My mates have no such emotion towards him, especially after that little jibe from Nik. Asshole. I’m already in enough trouble for taking off. I can only imagine what their possessive asses are going to do when we get back.
***”I will try to find him, but he can’t be our whole plan. There is too much going on here. From where we are it’s a whole ecosystem. We need to get an idea of what kind of supplies they have and how long they can outlast us. I think they were hoping for a better showing from Brecc and his goons, but we still don’t know if they are all working together or not. Brecc is just a greedy asshole, he may be on his own plan.”***
***”Bitty, Babe. You need to keep this link open and let us know what you are seeing and what you are doing at all times. We can be there in minutes if needed.”***
***”I will keep the link open, we always do, but you all cannot come running until we ask for back up. And before anyone protests look at Osiston and Nikolas. They can vouch for us. This is how we do this. We are on a mission like any other mission right now, this is what we do, this is my team, it’s exactly what we have trained for. I can guarantee that Wyatt and Nathaniel are doing their jobs like any other mission. Go find them and they can help you wrap your minds around us being out here working and probably give you four different visuals too.”*** This is as calm as I can be for them. I don’t want to fight or start a fight, but they can’t just come running after us and leave the rest of our warriors stranded, especially if the plan was to get me here and separated. They are targets, all of them, but my mates specifically.
I leave the conversation there. We need intel, not discussions. I know that Nik and Osiston will handle them now that everyone has been called out. As promised I don’t shut down their link, but I do shut out their comments, wish is mostly just grumbling and groaning about safety and mate trust and other bullsh*t.
***”So far, only three big buildings that we can see from here. There is still no scent that we can track. We need to decide if we should test if being inside the treeline changes that.”*** Lil starts our observations ***”Still tracking about four hundred on the ground, but they don’t seem to be in any active state, just going about general business.”
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