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Part Seventy-Seven
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Resurrection Part Seventy-Eight
We drank and ate our fill and we danced until the sun came up. It had been a magical night and as the sun caressed the horizon, we greeted our pack family and everyone started leaving. I was tired yet energized as I closed the front door behind James and Shoran.Malachi went to his study to update our family lupiary by adding Adara to it and comment on her first shift and the official mention of our imprinting. We would now be seen and recognized as a unit by everyone. I went upstairs to my room, but something felt wrong. I couldn’t quite figure it out. I felt almost empty inside and lonely. I had new respect for what James must have felt when Shoran had left, even if only for a day. It was so consuming that my senses were dulled. ‘It’s exhaustion,’ I told myself. It had been a long night, both physically and emotionally.I took my clothes off and stood in the middle of my room in my briefs. I couldn’t concentrate. I had to be close to her, even if it was just being in the same room
Resurrection Part Seventy-Nine
Juniper looked at Ramos and fear filled her eyes. He was going to get them both killed.“What are you planning to do?” Juniper asked. He smirked at her and she didn’t like it.“Tomorrow night is her resurrection. I’ll be waiting in the woods and they won’t know what hit them,” Ramos said.“In the woods? You don’t know how many wolves there will be!” She exclaimed worriedly.“This is Alaska, his pack won’t have more than fifteen members, including his family. They will be so busy that my scent will fade into the crowd,” Ramos said and gave her a look that meant she better keep her mouth shut.“Go pack our stuff, we have to leave anyway,” Ramos said.He had already booked a room for them in Nikiski, it was far enough away to make them believe that they had left, but not so far away that he wouldn’t be able to drive back. It was only a few hours away.Ramos had a great plan. They would pack all their personal belongings, because they really were leaving. They would sleep in Nikiski that
Resurrection Part Eighty
Ramos woke up at 8 PM. He felt somewhat rested but also that he could sleep for two more hours. He got up and took another shower. Juniper ordered coffee from room service and by the time Ramos came out of the shower, his coffee had just arrived.“Are you sure I shouldn’t go with you?” Juniper asked him.“You’ll just get in my way and then I’ll have to worry about you the whole time,” Ramos replied.Secretly she was relieved. She didn’t want to be anywhere near Seward when Ramos killed Malachi. She truly hoped that he wouldn’t get caught and she wanted him to succeed very badly. She was tired of moving, tired of this cold place, and tired of having to scheme and plot to survive.Their last job had been pure genius, which was why they’d also moved to Alaska so suddenly. They would never be able to go back to Washington. Ramos had worked security for a big art gallery, and he had scoped the place out for six months before they robbed it. Ramos had sold the painting to a fence he was fri
Resurrection Part Eighty-One
Adrian Peters had grown up in Seward. He had gone to Seward High School, he had then gone to the Academy and became a cop. He loved his job, he loved being right, he also had no emotional attachments to anyone and he prided himself on always getting answers.Adrian Peters also lived alone, his relationships never seemed to work out as he saw himself as more intelligent than his counterparts and he grew tired of them quickly. He wiped the already clean surface of the kitchen counter again.The open rape case that he and his partner, Robert Jones, had handed over to the detectives still puzzled him. It had been nagging and nagging him until he had thought about it so much that he had started to remember certain things.He remembered the stories of his ancestors. It had started with his great-grandmother, Katina Petrov. She had been part of the Ivanovich pack in Russia and she was born in Stary Izborsk, which meant Old Izborsk, near the Estonian border.In those days and especially with
Resurrection Part Eighty-Two
Adara and I drove down past the forest and I phoned James on the way.“Are you two up?” I asked when he finally answered.“Barely, Kiran, I barely survived,” James said and I could hear Shoran in the background threatening him. I smiled as I thought back to my own experiences just a few hours ago.“Well, get dressed. We’re picking you up in a few minutes,” I said and ended the call. We stopped in front of their house, and James and Shoran came outside, hand in hand, both smiling. Adara moved to the back and James got in next to me.“So, you two finally got laid,” James said and I laughed. I should have known Karani would be on the phone with Stephanie as soon as we left the house. Adara didn’t think we were funny at all.“Does everyone know?” she asked and Shoran told her how they knew. I had been right and of course everyone could hear the conversation, not because they listened in, but because Karani and Stephanie always spoke on speaker phone.“So, was I right, or was I right?” Sho
Resurrection Part Eighty-Three
Adrian arrived at his house and threw his duffel bag on the floor next to the couch. He had found out so many things in the last week. He looked at all the dossier files on his dining room table. He knew he had them!The day before yesterday he had gone back to the hotel. He knew that they weren’t there. He walked up to reception and smiled at the woman behind the counter.“Hey Rebecca,” Adrian had greeted her. He had taken her out to dinner the previous night and had behaved like the perfect gentleman. He had set his plan in motion.“Hey Adrian!” She greeted him back with a perfect smile. He knew that she had had a great time since she had invited him in for coffee, he had obliged.“I need a favor from you, sweetheart,” he told her.“Anything for you, Adrian,” she replied, flirting a little.“I need the hotel guest lists for these dates,” he handed her a piece of paper consisting of a few dates from September to December. She looked at the list and then looked back at Adrian.“Adrian
Resurrection Part Eighty-Four
Six months laterI looked in the mirror and smiled. My heart started beating a bit faster as I decided the tuxedo was just right. Today was the day! A day filled with love and laughter, friends, family, and the promise of forever. My speech wasn’t written but I decided to wing it, from the heart of course. I went downstairs to find Karani ordering the caterers around.“You look so handsome! Have I told you lately how proud I am of you?” Karani said as she looked at me, smiling as I stood at the bottom of the stairs.There were little bouquets of forget-me-not flowers cradled by baby’s breath. Karani had selected the flowers carefully and she placed yellow Showy Lady’s Slippers strategically on the tables. The tables were covered with white tablecloths.In the corner of the dining room area, the caterers had set up their bay marines and the smells were mouth-watering. I suddenly felt very nervous as Richard Gardner entered the dining room with Malachi, they were shaking hands and smili
Resurrection Part Eighty-Five
The night that Adrian Peters and Robert Jones were waiting in the kitchen when Adara and I arrived home had ended pretty interestingly. Malachi had heard them talking as soon as we walked into the garage. We had driven to the hotel instead, walked through reception and out of the back door. We used one of the hotel cars and drove to the den.We had spent a few hours cleaning the basement, we scooped up all the ashes that were in the fire pit and scattered them as we drove back to the hotel. We walked out the front door again and into our car and headed home.I pretended not to see them as we drove past them where they had tried to hide their car behind some bushes. They followed us back home and they watched the house for an hour before leaving.After that night I had noticed Adrian Peters a lot more on my daily routines. He would sit on a bench reading a newspaper as I jogged past him. He would be in the next aisle when Adara and I went into a shop. He had even waited outside the hot
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