"I said, what the fuck are you doing here Adam?" Tyler growled out with a really pissed off look on his face. I stood next to the stairs with Aria and Bella while Cade and Carter were just behind us. "Oh shit." Cade muttered. "Is something wrong?" I asked. "Well, things are about to get a whole lot more interesting around here." He answered. "Cade, Carter. I can't believe you are still here serving my brother. I thought you would have bailed years ago. How the hell have you been able to put up with him for so long?" Adam asked. "It's pretty easy when you're not around." Carter replied. "And who are these lovely ladies?" He asked looking us three up and down. "Off limits." Cade growled. "Oh. Their mates. Gotcha. But what about you blondie? How serious are you about your mate?" Adam asked approaching me and he reached out and stroked my hair. And within a second Tyler had him by the throat and slammed him against the wall next to us. "Oh. I probably should have mentioned that I
Tyler was looking between me and Adam who was still on the floor and I was waiting for Adam to say something. When I realized that he wasn't going to say anything at all then I was about to open my mouth. "I owe them a lot of money." Adam blurted out. And I looked at him curiously. "What?" Tyler asked confused. "Tessa heard me on the phone this morning. I was telling her not to tell you. But she heard me and it was a loan shark. I got into gambling and I owe this guy a lot of money. That's why mom and dad kicked me out. They were sick of covering my ass. So I came here. You've got enough money to help me." Adam explained standing up. By this point we had gathered quite an audience of not just our friends but warriors that heard the commotion and came in to see what was going on. "So, that's why you're here. Because you need money. Well, don't think for one fucking second that you're getting any from me. If you don't want them to break your legs then you find a way to pay off your
TESSA POV Adam had been in town for a week now and things had been going pretty good. Tyler and him haven't had any more run ins which was a good sign. Adam was behaving himself and grudgingly taking the jobs that Tyler was assigning him to. And they really were the worst jobs in town. And I was started to get back into fighting form. Tyler was finally waking up early enough to come jogging with me. And I was now able to do one and a half laps of the territory which I was actually happy about. It was about time I was improving. And when we got back to the packhouse Adam was just leaving for work. "Have fun on council duty today." Tyler says. "You have me picking up litter and emptying the public bins in town. How the hell can I have fun with that?" Adam asked. "I don't know. Make the most of it." Tyler smirked and pulled me into the house. "You know, if you keep mocking him like that then he is going to resent you even more and you two will be in each other's faces again." I say.
Tyler got the sheriff from the nearest human town to come to the crime scene and he was a middle-aged man with a severe beer belly and was nothing to be desired around these muscled werewolves. "I don't know who he is. He doesn't have any ID." Tyler said to sheriff Miller as they approached the scene. "Oh yeah. His name is Donny. I know him. He's pretty popular around my station house." The sheriff said. "Well, no matter what he did, he didn't deserve this. My coroner has already been here. He determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma and that he's been dead roughly 6 hours." Tyler explained. "Thanks. Obviously I will have to get my coroner to look at him so that it's legit. And we have to move him off pack lands." Sheriff Miller says. "Yeah. These men are here waiting to help you." Tyler says. "Take him about a mile away from the boarder. We can't have people searching the woods and coming too close to the pack." Tyler says. "Don't worry. I'll make sure that they ke
Tyler called for two warriors to take Adam to the dungeon and don't take their eyes off of him. He is to stay there until Tyler tells them otherwise. And after they took Adam I sat on the couch still in shock. "Did you actually feel an Alpha aura coming off of me?" I asked. "No. It was something different. It was powerful. But it wasn't an Alpha aura. It was something completely different. And your eyes." Tyler says sitting next to me. "What about my eyes?" I asked. "We all know that vampires can compel people by staring into their eyes and making them do whatever they want?" He asked. "Yeah. What's that got to do with me?" I asked. "Your pupils were pulsating while you were commanding him to speak." Tyler says. "Holy shit. I have vampire powers. Why are they only coming out now? What the fuck is happening to me? This isn't me. This isn't what I do." I say. But Tyler held my hand and made me look at him. "I think you're missing the bigger picture. You actually got that rat bast
Tyler and I were still in our wolf forms when that witch turned to look directly at me with blackened eyes and hissed 'Tesssssa.' Almost like she was calling to me. It was the same voice that I heard the other times. She was the one doing this. But why was a witch messing around with me. Tyler jumped in front of me and crouched into an attack position and bared his teeth at her. Trying to protect me. 'Tyler, don't. She can't cross the boarder. That's why she hasn't done it yet.' I mind linked him. 'How do you know that?' He asked. 'I can feel it. There's a shield around the territory keeping her out.' I say. 'Who the fuck put a shield up?' He asked. "Your mother did." The witch replied. Holy fuck, she could hear our thoughts. We were so fucked right now. 'My mother wasn't a witch.' I say. "No. But she was friends with one. And the shield isn't around your territory. Not technically. It's around Tessa. Whatever territory she's in, the shield is around." The witch says. 'So, you
TYLER POV "Tessa." I sang out going into our bedroom. I know that I was out of line when I forbid her to do anything but she was willing to go on a suicide mission to go find her father. There's no way I could let her go and do that. Not with other vampires and witch's after her. But when I walked into our room I noticed that she wasn't there. I looked in the bathroom and it was empty as well. So I walked back downstairs to the bar area where everyone was hanging out. "Has anyone seen Tessa?" I asked. "Not since that fight your two had a couple hours ago." Aria said. " By the way, you were a dick." She commented. "I didn't ask for your opinion. She stormed up to our room but now she's not there." I tell them. "Am I missing something? What argument?" Bella asked. "Tessa wants to go to New Orleans to find Angelo. I said no and she got pissed." I explained. "Correction, you forbid her from going." Aria glared at me. "Uh-oh." Bella says with a weird look on her face. "What?" I as
TYLER POV I don't know how long I had been here for but when I started coming to I knew that I was tied while standing up and I didn't know where I was. Everything was a blur but I heard a lot of noise around me. There were people everywhere, loud music, like a massive party happening right where I was. I slowly opened my eyes and sneaked a peak and I could tell that I was still in that same mansion and I was surrounded by vampires. Vampires partying, vampires feeding on people, willing people. Vampire groupies. It was disgusting. But when one started approaching me, I closed my eyes again and pretended like I was still unconscious. He walked right up to me and grabbed a hold of my face and then splashed freezing cold water on my face. That got my attention and woke me up really quickly. I heard everyone whooping and cheering when I woke up and the vampire standing in front of me was no Angelo. I didn't know who this was. "Look at what we have here. A werewolf decided to step into