“Why are you here Jett?” I asked him as he pulled a pair of shorts on.“I was in the neighbourhood,” he shrugged.“Sure you were, you staying for dinner?” I asked him.“Obviously, and Griff, don’t call me fat again,” he said as he sucked in his stomach and I laughed.“Come on,” I said as I led him back towards the house.Kane lifted his head as I opened the front door and glanced at Jett, not showing the slightest hint if he was happy to see him or not. Jett followed me inside and looked around and I wondered how he had found me in the first place.“There’s beer in the fridge,” I said to him as he turned back towards me.“I like what you’ve done with the place,” he said as he walked through to the kitchen and I heard the fridge open. “You want one too?”“Sure,” I said and I heard him uncap the two bottles.“How’s he doing?” Jett asked me as his eyes flitted to where Kane was in the living room.“Still not talking to me,” I said to him.“He’ll come around, so what’s new, brother?” he a
I carried the woman back to my house as Kane followed me. I laid her down on the bed that Jett had occupied the previous night and Kane sniffed her gingerly as I pushed her wet hair out of her face. Her lips had a blueish tinge to them and I hated invading her personal space like this but I had to.I stripped off her wet clothes as Kane watched and pulled a pair of my sweatpants and a t-shirt on over her naked body. She had plenty of cuts and bruises all over but nothing that looked life threatening. I turned the heating up in her room and covered her with a fur blanket and tucked it down around her.“Will she live?” Kane asked me as I stood up.“I think so,” I said to him.“Stop staring pervert, it’s just a girl,” Kane said as he walked out of the room and I followed him down the stairs as he headed for the living room.“She smells odd,” I said to him.“What’s for dinner?” he asked me as he made himself comfortable on the couch facing the television.“Are you talking to me now?” I as
Sierra was asleep on the couch with her head resting on Kane, he gave me a begrudging look when I walked in through the front door and I couldn’t help but laugh. He wasn’t impressed with me at all. I carried all the bags inside and she woke up after a while from the noise.“You’re back,” she said as she joined me in the kitchen.“You were asleep when I left, didn’t want to wake you,” I said.“The cat kept me company,” she said and Kane growled low enough so only I could hear him.“He has a name, Kane. I got you these,” I said and handed her the bag from the pharmacy.“Thank you,” she said.“No problem, the sooner you’re better the sooner you can leave,” I said and Kane laughed at me.“Wow, you weren’t joking when you said you don’t like people,” she said.“I have work to do, your presence interferes with that,” I said as I started packing things away.“I’ll be the perfect house guest, I promise,” she said and poured herself a glass of water to drink her pills.“Dinner’s around six or
I was sitting on a chair next to the bed when I heard Sierra’s breathing change as she woke up. She kept her eyes closed for a moment and I stared at her. She had dark brown hair where Samantha had blonde hair, deep blue eyes where Samantha had brown ones. They were nothing alike, so I had to wonder why I hadn’t just let her go when she ran.“I know you’re awake, Sierra,” I said softly and she shifted on the bed to turn towards me.“What happened?” she asked.“You ran, we found you passed out against a tree, brought you back, same as the other night,” I said.“I’m sorry,” she said and looked down avoiding my eyes.“Why did you run?” I asked.“I was afraid that they’d find me here,” she said softly.“This is where you start talking, and not some bullshit story about rogues, the truth,” I said.“I ran away from the pack because I heard what they were planning for me, I couldn’t stay,” she said.“Everything Sierra, now’s the time to trust someone, I can’t help you if I don’t know the tru
“Basically it’s a he said, she said scenario,” Jett mused.“Not really Jett, they need to prove what they’re claiming,” I said to him.“True, but for that to happen you’d have to hand her over to the Council,” he said.“I can’t do that,” I said to him.“Why not?”“There’s no guarantee that whoever won’t hand her over to Hastings for interrogation, she’s human, you know that by our laws the Council will favour Hastings,” I said.“Griff, do you realize what you’re saying?” Jett asked me.“What else am I supposed to do here, Jett? We both know she’s not lying, she has pack secrets, fuck man, she is the pack secret, that’s the only reason they want her back. They need to silence her before she actually tells someone what’s going on over there,” I said to him.“This is messed up,” Jett said.“What’s going to happen to me?” Sierra asked.“Nothing,” I said to her. “Nothing’s going to happen to you.”“Maybe you should bring her to the clowder house, she’s safer there than here,” Jett said.“N
Sierra stood in front of me, very close to me, she leaned forward and kissed me. I don’t know what I was thinking in that moment as I kissed her back, but I felt a pull towards her that I couldn’t explain. Her hands were on my face and mine were pulling her closer.I lifted her up as I stood and placed her on the bathroom counter. She was wearing a t-shirt and I was practically naked. She wrapped her legs around me and pulled me closer to her. I pulled the t-shirt over her head as I felt my wounds starting to heal.I didn’t remember moving us to the bed or taking my underwear off but the next moment I was hovering on top of her, pushing into her and reality set in when she hissed in pain and I stopped moving. It dawned on me then, but it was too late to stop.“Don’t stop, Griffin,” she whispered.I didn’t stop, neither of us wanted to stop. Things changed for me in that moment as I looked into her eyes, moving slowly together. I started to feel things I hadn’t felt in eight years and
“What just happened?” Sierra asked me as we waited at the reception counter.“You’ve been released on bail in my custody, so now I’m responsible for you attending court or I’ll be arrested,” I said to her.“You paid two million dollars?” she whisper yelled at me.“Yes, if you attend court the bail money will be paid back to me when the trial ends,” I said to her.She looked at me with wide eyes as Ravi came back and handed me a memory stick. It would contain all the evidence, statements, video footage, if there were any, and all other matters related to the case. I thanked her and nudged Sierra towards the elevator.“Two million dollars,” she whispered.“It’s just money, Sierra,” I said to her as we reached the ground floor and I signed us out of the building by scanning my handprint onto the screen again.We left the building and walked back towards the way we came. I grabbed her hand again as more people filled the sidewalks and kept walking towards the portal. It opened again and I
“There’s something I need you to do,” I said to Sierra two weeks later as I finished my trial preparation for the day.The amount of evidence I had worked through had been insane and there were a lot to process and I had a whole notebook full of notes and questions. I had requested independent investigators for the video footage, handwriting analysis and I also requested the dungeon records from the Hastings pack. I was still waiting for feedback on most of my requests.“What do you need?” Sierra asked.“You need to formally reject the Hastings pack,” I said to her.“But I was never part of their pack,” she said.“Technically you were, you lived there among them for your whole life, even if you never took the oath to obey the Alpha, you accepted their rules and punishments as if you were a member,” I said to her.“Okay, how do I do that?” she asked.“I, Sierra Peyton, hereby reject the Hastings pack as my own, I reject Alpha Conrad Hastings as my Alpha and protector. I hereby accept t