Aria
“What are you doing?”
Mim’s voice cuts through the darkness and makes my heart leap out of my chest. At first, I wasn’t sure who it was sitting in the dark, but as soon as I hear her speak, I know who it is, and even though it takes me a second to recover, I’m still a little nervous. She doesn’t sound exactly friendly.
I flip the lightswitch on and try to stay calm. “Mim, you scared me a little. Why are you sitting there in the dark?”
“Sorry,” she says, but she doesn’t exactly sound sorry. “I was wondering where you were. I mean, I know that the guys are out on a reconnaissance. So… what were you doing?”
Her tone i
Sebastian The rogues are getting braver, and I don’t like that. They get closer and closer to the house every time they invade these days. And they don’t care about cameras or anything else that can’t catch them and rip their throats out. Somehow, it seems like they know which direction we are headed and when we will be going that way. We are always able to catch up to them, cut them off, and send them scrambling back out of our territory, but we can never quite catch them. The fact that they have yet to make it to the house is not a deterrent to them; they just keep trying, not after night. It is frustrating, and I would spend all night, every night, out on patrol if it wasn’t for the fact that I want to be with Aria. After my shift is over, I return to the house, to my room, hoping she’s in my bed, but she’s not. I need to see her, s
AriaThings are starting to come to a head. I can feel it. For the next couple of days, Sebastian is busy planning what to do about the rogues, Mim is constantly nagging me to let her go with me to raid offices at night, and I am trying to determine whether or not I have enough evidence to confront Victor Kurts.I don’t think I do. I think I need something else, but I don’t want Mim to come with me. I’m not sure I trust her. I hate to say it, but it’s true. She’s acting so weird. She’s insistent that I come with her, and look in Grip’s office again. Maybe she just can’t believe there’s nothing in there that implicates him, since she doesn’t know there was. I don’t know. I’m not sure what to do about it.I’ve decided
SebastianRunning after the rogues at full speed, I let Flint, my wolf, take over the physical part, but I am still in charge of the mind-link and most of the cognitive activity. It’s sort of odd being in the body of my wolf. When I am in my human form, Flint is there, but rather dormant most of the time. I am almost always cognizant of what is happening while we are on a hunt like this one. The only time I even tune out a little bit is on a long run, like when we got to the city on foot.Now, I am running alongside Dez, and the two rogues that took off from the house are in front of us. I see our other forces coming in from the side. I am almost certain we are going to be able to apprehend these two, as well. Having three is always better than having one because there’s a good chance at least one of them will break. But I&rsq
Aria“What are you talking about?” I ask Mim as she ducks down quickly and snatches up the piece of paper that I’ve dropped. “You did find something in Grip’s desk, didn’t you?”I pull it out of her hand. “How do you know that?” I ask her, tucking the paper back away, praying it stays where I put it this time.“Why else would you be carrying around a piece of paper in your cleavage?” she asks me. “It has to be something you found in there.”“So what?’ I say. “You make it sound like I’m supposed to trust you, when you clearly don’t trust me. There’s no way in hell I’ll trust you after this!” I gesture at the tiny pieces of pa
SebastianThe three rogues are taken down to the basement and put in three separate cells. One of the Omegas notified Grip, and he is on his way back from the city to interrogate them. If anyone can do it, it’s him. He’ll have them singing like canaries within a few minutes.That doesn’t stop me from trying, though. I don’t even bother to go back to my room to take a shower, just grab some clothes out of an emergency stash in my office and then head down the stairs to see where we are. The three of them are loud, yelling at my men to let them go, and I listen intently to try to see who sounds the most frightened. I choose the guy in the middle room and head in.He’s naked, which doesn’t bother either one of us, despite the fact that we are not pack members.
AriaMy mind is made up. I know what I have to do. I go into automatic mode, rushing through the steps I have to follow in order to have the best chance of getting out of here without getting caught. I figure my ability to walk out the door in the daylight is just as likely to get me where I want to go as sneaking out at night, so that’s what I plan to do.But I remember that Dez said people do monitor the cameras. I have to assume that means the house cameras, too, and if they’ve just captured rogues, there’s probably a good chance they’re watching them extra closely. So I can’t look like me when I walk out of here.I go to Sebastian’s closet and dig around, looking for a disguise. I see a ball cap on a top shelf, one I’ve never seen him wear before.
SebastianI stand in the foyer, watching as the car pulls away. I know that what I’ve done will cause problems, but it has to be this way, even if Dez and my father don’t understand the situation. I will have to speak with both of them eventually, and neither of those conversations will be pleasant.I hear the sound of hurried footsteps behind me and realize one of those conversations will be happening a lot more quickly than I previously realized.“Sebastian!” my cousin shouts as he practically skids to a stop in front of me, his shoes not quite appropriate for the marble floor. “What the hell are you thinking?”“I’m sorry, Dez,” I say, my hands up as I try to explain. “I had no choice.&r
AriaRuby is flying across the open ground, her claws digging into the soft earth and flipping out chunks of grass and dirt with each step. She doesn’t slow for anything. Not large boulders in our way, babbling brooks or wider streams, not even a sharp incline now and again. She runs on, for hours, and when the sun begins to drop below the horizon, I know we have transitioned out of the forests of the north into the mountainous areas further south. If we keep going and actually make it to our homeland, we will be in an area similar to the forest we have just left, but in the south it is swampier. The forests are in the wetlands. I am looking forward to being back home, but it’s too early for me to assume we’ll make it safely. We have a long way to go, and I am fairly certain we’ll be crossing into other pack territories, and there’s a good chance we&rsqu