Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
She waves a hand around at the wolves still fighting around us like it’s a minor inconvenience. “You said this would all be done by now. Stop stalling.”
She looks at Mike.
“You have no authority, here you stupid b*tch. They aren’t even interested in you anymore.”
Mike makes a gesture with his hand and two more guys join us dragging Kevin between them. He’s breathing, but for once, I don’t feel bad for a person. He has never done anything but try to cause me harm and pain.
“What?! You promised they would be completely under my control by their eighteenth birthday. What the f*ck did you do wrong?”
It’s like they’ve forgotten we are here, but I’m afraid to move and gain their attention.
“I did nothing wrong. Your father however is so incompetent that he couldn’t even complete a simple spell to maintain your hold over these two dimwits. That would make sense though, coming from this pack.”
I can feel Dakota tense around me. This time I do move just enough to lace my fingers with his. I’m even afraid to speak over the mindlink. I don’t want to miss anything they might say about the magic or the pentagram.
***”We’re here. You have a full circle. Nathaniel has eyes on the car Kaley came in. Some of your guys were able to flatten the tires. She isn’t going anywhere unless she wants to get dirty.”*** Lil gives me the basics, she knows I need to focus, but knowing we aren’t alone helps calm my nerves.
Kevin lifts his head up. “I did everything you said to do. It took years to make that spell work.”
He wheezes out. She changed the ingredients or incantation and it didn’t hold the way you said it would. You were never going to give us this pack anyway were you?” He asks and I can see his brain working. They made a deal to help get me and secure the twins for Kaley, but Mike had no intention of leaving my pack unharmed, more than likely including them. It was probably easy for him or one of his people to convince them to do the hard work of setting up the spell with the promise of power and the form of the future Alphas, knowing he was going to kill everyone anyway. It was a deal easily made.
“Of course I changed the ingredients and the spell! I needed them to be mine, but one of you f*cked the whole thing up!” When is she going to ever learn to take responsibility? Who am I kidding, that has never been her thing and it never will be.
“Who gave you a different spell?” I find myself asking. If there is another player, I want to know, but I am also genuinely curious.
“Adrielle said if I added a couple lines to the spell at each of the plant thingies, then it would be stronger for me.”
I think this is the first time she has addressed me and not insulted me. “But the guys I had do it must have done something wrong. You weren’t supposed to be here anyway.”
***”If it really was Adrielle that gave her the things to change the pentagram, something else is going on. She didn’t want KAley to have the twins. Or something else.”***
***”Maybe she thought you wouldn’t survive the things you went through breaking the spells.”*** Cam muses.
***”It might not have been Adrielle, but someone like Gentry and I that wanted to stop her.”***
***”Elena! Are you close? Is the fire breaking the spell on these rogues?”***
***”Of course you are cornered by the enemy and thinking about people who were attacking you not two hours ago.”***
“Enough of this bullsh*t. I want my Luna, hand her over.”
Mike demands, like Dakota would do anything of the sort.
At that moment Oliver and Cam walk up. I can’t see them, but I can smell them both. Cam wraps an arm around my waist standing on my other side and Oliver next to him. I can’t help but feel like Oliver is too far away though.
“Don’t worry Bitty, there’s plenty of time to get close.”
“Stop reading my thoughts, Oliver.”
I try for snark, but I can’t help smiling.
“Not your thoughts, but your emotions. I would definitely like to have you closer, but we have business to attend to first.”
He turns his attention to Mike. “Unlike you, she craves our presence and our touch.”
He’s goading Mike too. But Mike’s patience is better than I thought.
Kaley walks over to Cam. She has always sought him out over Dakota. “Cameron, honey, please see reason. Mike is going to destroy your pack all for this skank. Just hand her over and everyone will be safe and sound. We can go back to our happy lives.”
For a brief second, I have a flash of him saying something placating to her, just so she stops causing problems, like he always has when it comes to her or the way his dad dealt with Kevin. She doesn’t get two steps from Mike though when he reaches out to stop her.
“Stay right where you are. If your Alphas want you they can have you, your usefulness has run its course for me. But they must give me Skylar in exchange.”
She winces and he must have given her wrist an unpleasant squeeze.
“That’s easy enough. Boys, hand her over and we can get back to normal.”
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.