The house looks pristine. Like he’s had a cleaner coming here everyday and a gardener to keep the outside looking brand new. It surprises me.Clearly, he took the opposite route with our house then I did with my moms. Which I couldn’t be happier about. I would have been heartbroken if this house was burnt to ash when we got back.I stand in the living room with Dallas and Liam, and just look around for awhile. Everything’s still here right where we left it. If it wasn’t so freaking clean, it’d be like we never left.The house was never dirty, but it was lived in. It always showed a family, and all their friends occupied the house, but now it looks more like a museum.I grab Liam’s hand, and he squeezes mine in return, “Come on, Angel.” He pulls me, and leads me up the stairs and to our bedroom.Dallas stays in the living room, giving us some much needed space to be alone.I go straight to our room, wanting nothing more than to lay down on our bed after not having a comfortable bed for
I grunt frustrated and lay my head in my hands. “You put your mate in a cell?” I ask Griffon after he tells me everything that’s happened since we left. He nods, looking over at the window, “She tried to kill me. I mean… I know now that she didn’t really want to kill me, but at the time I thought she did.” He explains and I sigh.I shake my head and change to subject, “The stage is coming down, and we’re putting the park back. Your mom and I are not staying here, we’ll be heading back home. I’m getting rid of most of your safety rules. You’re going to explain to the pack how you acted out of fear and concern, then you’re going to apologize.”His teeth clench and he shakes his head, “I may not have done everything right, but everything I did was to keep the pack safe. You said yourself mom said that she wanted to get to us, and she couldn’t.” He says and I roll my eyes, “She couldn’t get to Heather either. And you know why? She used other witches to protect her pack. She didn’t take aw
Hazel and Cole don’t stay in the office for long. Hazel announcing they’re going to go see what books they have that’ll help with all this.Griffon tells everyone else that there’s food waiting for us in the dining room, and everyone except Griffon, Liam and I go.Liam walks over to Griffon’s desk, and forces him to move. Griffon stands up and Liam sits down. Griffon stares at him. “What does this mean? I’m not an Alpha anymore?” He asks, and I’m honestly not sure.I don’t know if Liam will want to take back his position or just help him fix the wrongs of what he’s done.I look over at Liam, as he starts rummaging through everything on the desk. He grunts frustrated as Griffon continues to stare at him. “I don’t know, Griffon.” He growls and then stands up and looks out the giant window overlooking the pack.I walk over to him and wrap my arms around his waist and look out at the pack with him. He wraps his arm around my shoulders and keeps me close to his chest.I know his mind is re
Driving up to the pack, I think I’ve set myself up for what I’m going to see.I’m wrong.Griffon’s car in front of us stops at the gate… No… Wall, and he talks to the guard that walks up to him.I can see the fear in the guards eyes from here.Goddess.Dallas must sense where my mind is, because he reaches out and grabs my hand.He doesn’t speak. I doubt he knows what to say. He helped do this. He helped Griffon create this nightmare.Aspen looks back at me through the rearview mirror, her eyes worried like she doesn’t know if I can handle what we’re about to walk in to.I give her a curt nod and lay my head down on Liam’s shoulder, his arm around me tightens.The wall opens and allows all of us to drive through. The guard looks into the car as we pass, and his eyes widen when he sees Liam and me.I try to smile. I really do, but it falls short.‘Aw. All this for little old me. It’s sweet.’ The witch speaks, but I ignore her. It’s what I’ve decided is best. I don’t want to engage with
Aspen leads us back to her new house. In her new pack and that just doesn’t sit right with me.I hate that things have gone so wrong since we’ve been gone, but I agree with Liam, we have other things to concern ourselves with.I don’t know how much stronger this witch is, but if she only needs one night a year to do what my dad did in twelve nights a year, that frightens me.I’m terrified at what the death toll will be if we allow it. I know I won’t allow it. I know I’ll do whatever I have to do to stop it, but I also know I’m going to be fighting everybody when it comes to that.Liam won’t ever just agree to let me end this.‘You won’t be able to anyway.’ The witches voice echos in my mind, and I grit my teeth. What does she know?She crackles, “A lot more than you. You think your dad never woke up after killing his family and tried to end it all? It won’t be possible. Nothing you do will stop this.’ She tells me and I close my eyes as Liam leads me up the stairs to the house.I open
“Everybody get the fuck out.” I shout at all of them.I ask one fucking thing, for them to leave her out of it, and I come back to find her on the fucking floor while they stand around shouting at each other.“Liam.” Mia starts, but the look I give her has her nodding and starting to leave.I hold onto Amy, trying to process what she said to me. The witch is fucking talking to her. Goddess.I remember the memory of when we saw her dad arguing with someone inside his head.I pick her up and take her over to her bed, as she clings to me and hides her face in my chest. I can’t believe this is happening. I thought we were done. I thought we had killed her, but we played right into her hands. Gave her exactly what she wanted.Everybody leaves except for Dallas, and I make myself okay with that, considering he was the only one that seemed to be trying to help her.When I sit her down on the bed, she looks up at me scared. “Liam. It’s only going to get worse. What do we do?” She begs me for