LOGINDelaney Quinn. I'm twenty-two this year. Own a diner in a little town called Pine Grove..also responsible for my ten year old brother. I am a hybrid.. human and wolf. My brother Maddox isn't. My mother was human. My father was an ex-communicated Alpha. He was deposed by trickery and treason. The pack weakened him so greatly with wolfsbane that he lost his wolf, and withered away.
View MoreI yelled “Maddox! Come on, Buddy Roe! I’m going to be late.. I still have to drop you at school.” He hollered down to me he was coming. True to his word, he landed his little ten year old self in front of me from the staircase landing.
He grabbed his backpack and I shoved my phone in my back pocket. I asked “Jeep or bike? It’s still warm enough for the bike.” He grinned and grabbed his helmet. Reckon that’s my answer, then! I climbed on my Harley Softtail Deluxe and backed it out of the garage. Maddox got on behind me, and we took off for the school. I was hugging the curves and flying low. Maddox loves speed. Parked out in front of Pine Grove Elementary, I asked “You have everything, right? Homework? Lunch card? Inhaler? Maxi pads?” He grinned and said “You’re such a dork.” Then he walked off, dramatically sighing “Ohhh nooo! I forgot my maxi pads.. AGAIN!” I started the bike.. laughing at his antics, and made my way to the diner. I walked into a pretty big breakfast crowd, for a Thursday. I smiled and told Ashley good morning.. before checking on my line cook and chef. She smiled and said “I’m leaving at noon.. but I have Tammy coming in to cover you. The doctor wants to run some labs.. he’s worried about congenital diabetes with this baby. Seems he’s bigger than he should be.” I asked “Even for a wolf? Does your doctor know you got knocked up by a wolf?” She shushed me and said “No one knows, Delaney! I only told you because you would have smelled it anyway.” I made a face “Eww. When you say it like that, it sounds creepy.” She giggled “Dude! It IS creepy!” I laughed at her and my wolf, Iris huffed at her. I set about rolling silverware for lunch and dinner.. and Ashley asks “Hey! Did you hear about the motorcycle club moving to town?” I shook my head and she continued “They bought that five hundred acres with those old campgrounds. Wolf warriors or something.” I perked up “Wolf warriors? Do you think? Could it be Warrior Wolves? That club that has mostly rejected wolves as their members? If so.. this town just got a whole lot safer. They’re feral rogue hunters.” She shrugs and tells me “Well. I’m sure I don’t know. There was just a biker in this morning.. at the asscrack of dawn. Before I even got coffee started.. saying his club was moving to town and he was just hanging out.. waiting on Mr. Donaldson over at the bank.” Again, I nodded. Not that I don’t care.. because I do. A bike club would bring in a lot of business.. and that can only help me out! I smiled at Ashley and said “Hey! Fresh meat! For all you know, your future ex-husband is a member.. a Biker AND a Wolf? Mega jackpot, right there!” She cracked up and responded “You just can’t help it, can you? Do you make a conscious effort every morning to be a bitch, when you crawl out of bed?” I laughed and said “Hell no! That shit just comes naturally!” Making her laugh, again. I asked “Did you remind Tammy she’s on her own from three to six? It’s Thursday.. and Maddox has training.” She said “Shit! No! I will text her right now.” She looked around for her phone.. then said “Give me your phone.” I laughed “Lost it again, did ya?” and handed her my phone. She muttered shut up and texted Tammy. She handed my phone back and said “You have a message from Maddox’s teacher.. something about maxi pads.” I choked on my own spit. That boy! I texted her back.. explaining it was just a joke between Maddox and myself, and I would take care of it. I went to the kitchen to see if Chef needed my help prepping for dinner.. but he said no. I have line cooks for the standard daily fare. But Chef works Thursday through Saturday evenings.. for a more substantial, upscale cuisine. It works well for the people in town. We got through lunch, and Ashley took off for the doctor. Congenital diabetes, my left tit! That baby is half wolf.. he’s going to be bigger! I left at 2:45 to grab Maddox from school.. and hurried home. We changed into our black combat clothes.. and I threw the duffle bag in the back of the Jeep. I drove out to the old abandoned farm we had found our first weekend here. I had set up a training ground for Maddox to hone his weapons skills. I don’t know if Marcus is coming for us.. but my little brother will not end up like my mother! Getting out of the Jeep, I asked “What do you want to work on first?” He shrugged and told me “Archery.. I’m better at that, than knives. And katana is always saved for last! It’s my favorite!” I grinned and said “Mine, too!” We ran our routines.. and I am so impressed with his accuracy and agility. His speed is increasing, too. His instincts are good and he never freezes. I grinned and said “Next week, we will start on moving targets. You have gotten good enough, we need to step it up!” He laughed “Yeah. I still don’t want to run the course blindfolded.. like you do. I don’t have that extra boost to my senses, that’s all you!” I told him “You have extra something, Buddy Roe! You’re accurate, as hell.. and fast. Your instincts are on par with a wolf’s.” I took him home to have dinner and do his homework. Mrs. Sutton from across the street came to babysit, until I closed the diner. Back at work, I was restocking the cooler and Tammy said “About time you made it back! I had a rush at four. Was in the weeds for an hour!” I straightened up and looked her over “You realize I am the person who signs your paycheck, right?” She nodded and I snarled “Then what gives you the right to use that tone with me? I won’t tolerate disrespect Tammy! From anyone!” She sneered “You know what?! I don’t give a fuck! I quit! That new M.C. is taking applications for club girls. Free room and board. A clothing allotment and two hundred cash a week!” I laughed and asked “You’d rather be a club whore than work in my diner? I wish you luck, young one! I hear initiation is a bitch!” She scoffed “Not a whore, you idiot. A club girl.” I busted out laughing..” Never been around a bike club, have you? Well! I wish you luck. Now, get your shit and clock out. I will have your final check cut in ten minutes.” I texted Ashley that we have to run an ad.. I need a new serverHe sat down across from her..She set the tablet aside..They looked at each other across the counter in the warm ordinary midday light of the diner with the lunch sounds moving around them and Kathy on her stool pretending not to watch and Priya and Cam navigating the last of the tables with the easy competence of people who had found their rhythm in this place..She said "Soup's coming."He said "Good."She said "You look tired."He said "I'm fine."She said "I know you're fine. You also look tired." She reached across the counter and covered his hand with hers.. the gesture that had become as natural as breathing.. "You can be both."He turned his hand over and held hers..She looked at their hands for a moment.. then looked up at him with the full steady force of those eyes that had been reading him accurately from the beginning..She said "Is it really over."He said "The immediate threats. Yes." He paused with the honesty that she had always deserved and had always received from
Third Person POV ~Renata Voss moved on a Wednesday.Geek saw it coming forty eight hours before it happened.. the particular digital signature of someone shifting from reconnaissance to active preparation.. the archive infiltration consultant making contact with the institution's external network in a way that was subtle enough to bypass standard security monitoring but not subtle enough to bypass Geek who had been watching for exactly that approach since the moment he identified the man's methodology..He came to Maddox on Monday morning with his laptop and the particular energy of someone who has been waiting for a specific thing to happen and has just watched it begin..He said "She's moving. Her digital guy made first contact with Dr. Osei's institution network Sunday night. Probing. Not infiltrating yet.. just testing the edges." He turned the screen toward Maddox.. "He's good. Genuinely good. If I hadn't been sitting on that network specifically he would have gotten through the
Delilah looked at him with the steady certainty that was entirely hers.. "What do you need from me."He said "Your awareness. Your caution. Nothing changes about your routine visibly.. if Voss is watching the compound she's watching for changes in pattern. We don't give her any." He paused.. "And your trust. We're going to set something up and I need you to trust that the pieces we put in place are enough."She said "I trust you."Simply.. completely.. the same three words she had said on the night of the Kathy rescue in the compound hallway.. carrying the same weight they had carried then and more besides because everything that had happened since had only added to them..He said "There's something else."She looked at him..He said "Delaney's tests from last week. The results came back this morning." He held her gaze.. "The marker is active. Fully active. Not dormant anymore.. not partially presenting.. fully active and accelerating."She was very still..He said "Delaney said it's
The evening settled around them.. the compound lights coming on one by one in the windows.. the sounds of people inside doing ordinary things.. Mama Rose's voice somewhere in the kitchen.. the low rumble of a bike engine pulling in through the gate.. the distant sound of Henri and Dare on the phone.. a friendship that had continued across the distance with the particular momentum of two people who had decided it was worth maintaining..Adaeze's voice somewhere in the garden beyond the wall.. talking to Delaney with the easy flow of someone who has started to find their footing in a new version of themselves..Drake's footsteps across the compound floor somewhere above them.. the sound of a man moving through a space he belonged to again..Kathy's laugh from inside.. the full unguarded version that meant someone had said something genuinely funny and she hadn't had time to moderate her response..All of it..The living breathing sound of something that had been broken and was now whole






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