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I wasn’t exactly sure what he was talking about, but I had a feeling it was Jax, considering he wasn’t harassing us. They didn’t kill him, did they? I hated his fucking guts, but I didn’t want him dead. I didn’t think, anyway.
Damon’s eyes narrowed. “You got lucky with that sucker punch. You’re still a coyote.””A coyote who’s gonna kick your ass if you don’t move.””If I were you, I’d do what he says.”
I looked up sharply as I heard Alexander’s voice, and while he hadn’t been there a split second ago, he was suddenly standing right behind Damon, looming over the man who was almost always the largest guy in the room.
Damon froze and turned a few shades paler before he looked over his shoulder. “Let me guess. You’re the vampire?””Move aside, son,” Alexander said, flashing his fangs in the most menacing smile I had ever seen. “You won’t like the alternative.”
Damon clenched his jaw, and I could see the stubbornness in his eyes, but he was smart enough to know when he was outmatched. He and Jax didn’t have that in common. He finally stepped aside, giving me a frustrated glance, as if I was somehow to blame for his plan going sideways.
Alexander’s gaze softened as he looked at me, and he held his hand out for me to walk by as if to shield me. I wasn’t sure where he’d been, but I couldn’t deny I was relieved to see him. We still had plenty of ground left to cover, though.
I paused in the hallway with Liam and Cole at my back and stopped to look at Damon. “After everything, I still thought you were better than this. I thought you were at least a man of your word in some regards. Clearly, I was wrong.”
Something like guilt touched his eyes, but I didn’t stick around to see any more. When I made it to the living room of the small house they had taken me to and saw Jax’s unconscious body lying on the floor, his right eye sporting a fresh shiner that was still forming, I frowned. Cole wasn’t kidding about knocking him out. But at least the asshole was still alive.
I stepped over his body and resisted the urge to kick him while he was down, if only because I was still a bit unsteady on my feet.
The fresh air felt damn good as soon as I made it outside, even though it was evening. Could you have jet lag if you hadn’t even traveled that far?”Are you sure you’re okay?” Cole asked, putting a hand on my shoulder.
I nodded. “Yeah. I think so. Just a little woozy still.””We’ll go back to the castle,” said Alexander. “I’ll have a doctor look over you there.”
It was probably a good idea, even if I still had plenty of other questions. One of which couldn’t wait.”Where were you?” I asked, searching his face. I didn’t want to believe he’d just bailed on me because of what he’d heard, without even giving me the chance to explain, but I couldn’t think of many other explanations.”I went to observe Paul,” Alexander said, a hint of guilt in his eyes. “I’m sorry. I never should have left you, not even for a second. I made a mistake thinking these fools could be trusted.” He turned a murderous glare on Liam, who had come out onto the lawn with us.”Easy, Nosferatu,” Cole muttered. “He’s the only reason I found Lavinia as fast as I did.”
Alexander looked between them hesitantly. Despite the fact that he and Cole had somewhat recently made peace with each other, they were still far from each other’s favorite people, and shifters and vampires usually weren’t close.”Is that true?” Alexander asked, looking at me for validation.”It is,” I answered, looking around as I realized one of us was missing. “Where’s Marcus?””I met him on the way here. He was looking for you, too, but I picked up your scent, so I told him to go keep an eye on Paul,” Alexander murmured. “He’s up to something. I’m not sure what yet, but he is.””No surprise there,” said Liam. “I knew he wasn’t going to take all this shit sitting down. I’m not defending what they did at all. I’m furious. But I do think that’s why they did it, if it helps at all.””I’m not sure help is the right word,” I admitted. “But… thanks.”
As angry as I was, he was probably right. If even Alexander thought my “father” was planning something, I could see why they wouldn’t want to take any chances of their rule being questioned. But that didn’t make what they had done okay.
It did, however, make me worried about leaving Liam to deal with the fallout if he really wasn’t involved in any of it.
And there was still the matter of my army…”I know you’re in a hurry to leave, but we do have a doctor on site,” said Liam. “I could call her to take a look at you before you go.””Yeah, I’m sure your pack doctor is a real expert,” Cole scoffed.”Actually, she is,” Liam said with a dry chuckle. “She graduated top of her class at the best medical school in the region.”
Cole glared at him, but he didn’t have a response.”I guess we could stick around for a little bit,” I said with a sigh, hugging myself. Cole immediately shrugged out of his jacket and draped it around my shoulders. I smiled up at him. “As long as those two stay in line.””Damon looked like he was going to shit himself when he saw Alexander,” Cole said with a snort. “I think that little bitch I laid out is even more of a coward.””I’ll make sure they don’t cause any further problems,” Liam assured me. “They only got the best of me because I wasn’t expecting it. That won’t be a mistake I make again.”
There was no mistaking the anger or the betrayal in his voice, and I could understand it easy enough. Sure, I had been engaged to Jax and Damon, and at one point, I had considered them my friends. But we were never that close. Not as close as Liam was to them. His own brothers had betrayed him, and that fucking sucked, no matter what their excuse was.”Okay,” I said with a sigh. “Let’s go visit the doctor.””Then we get back on the road,” Cole said, eyeing me as if he knew I was already having second thoughts.”Yeah,” I said, still too at war with myself to voice them. “Then we get back on the road.”
AURELIUS”You hear anything in there?” Cole asked, his ear pressed to the door of the main room at the clinic just beyond the waiting room. I knew the doctor would have taken Lavinia even further back inside, and I could only make out their conversation in the most muffled tones.”No,” Marcus grumbled, equally transfixed on the door.
I was kind of relieved the vampire and the coyote were around to keep him from killing me when he showed up five minutes ago, because I was getting tired of explaining myself to Lavinia’s suitors and I was sure the hunter had a full arsenal under that battered leather jacket of his.
It was no secret why she wanted to have the visit herself, since she hadn’t told the coyote or the hunter about the baby. Couldn’t say I blamed her for not wanting to break the news here, and so far, the vampire seemed to be keeping things under wraps.