Cataleya’s POV continued- We head back up to our rooms and I go to take a nice hot shower. It feels amazing to let the water beat into my muscles and soothe away the soreness after a good training session. When I get out I grab some comfy jeans and a black tank top since it’s still hot outside, but I don’t want to get my legs all torn up if I have to go work outside today. I put on my hiking boots and grab a hair tie to put around my wrist just in case I need it later after my hair fully dries. As soon as I walk out of my door, Aria steps out of her place and she falls in line with me wearing something similar. Same brain, remember? “Oh my God I’m starving,” she grumbles as we head down towards the kitchen. When we get close we take a deep breath because the air smells delicious. Thankfully my mom has already made a bunch of food and has it laid out on the kitchen island, buffet style. “Aunt Jess, you are a lifesaver!” “Hey I may be getting older but I still work out and train too
Dean’s POV- I was in my office going over the paperwork my dad sent over. Most of it was easy stuff he just wanted me to look at so I knew what was going on with the business. He always felt it was best to keep open communication about everything and I completely agree. It makes things so much easier without having to second guess about anything that someone else might be doing. It hasn’t been that long since everyone went their own ways to take care of our jobs for the day when I got a notice from Mark. He said that he saw something on one of the cameras near the pack border this morning, so he was keeping a close eye on it in case anything else came up and saw a rogue sniffing around that same area. Cataleya was already headed in that direction to work on the trail cams so she was already on his tail. I knew that after I lost one there was no way she would lose one too. I wasn’t that lucky. So I headed down to the holding cells to make sure that we had everything we would need rea
Alec’s POV- After the meeting, I hang back in the packhouse to speak with Kade about what he saw with the hunters. We got the link from Jace that there was another rogue shortly after Kade went out, but then Kade sent a short link just saying ‘hunters’. Kinda cryptic but there wasn’t any call for help or link from anyone else on patrol in that area so we assumed everything went ok. Just then the front door flung open and I could practically feel the tension and aggression coming off of Kade as he stalked through the door, not caring to try and close it behind him. He starts to head off to his room but I get in his line of sight and stop him first. “Kade! What the hell happened to you? Why are you so grumpy?”“Huh?” he asks, finally registering that it’s me in front of him. “Oh, sorry. Nothing happened, I’m not grumpy. Saw the rogue, but there was already a hunter on him and they took him down before he crossed over. That’s it, end of story,” he says shortly.“Really? And it was the
Alec’s POV continued- “Dean,” I say, nodding to him as we walk towards each other. Then turning to his mom I lay on one of my biggest smiles. “Hi Jessica! How have you been?”“Save it, Wolfman! You know I’m already spoken for,” she says smiling back. She can tell I only said it like that to screw with Dean, but she shut it down real quick. “So tell me about this girl.” I quickly tell them about how we found Lucy and what the girls told me they learned from speaking to her.“That poor girl!” Jessica says. “Where is she?”“She’s in the SUV with some of my people. She’s still scared and nervous so I wanted to give her some time and tell you everything without her having to hear it over again.” “Good idea. If you guys don’t have any more information about her, that’s all I need from this meeting. I can go grab her and take her back to start getting her settled.”“That’s all I have, unless there’s anything else you need Dean?”“No, nothing else for her right now. We can try to find out m
Dean’s POV- This is dumb. I know deep down it’s the right thing to do, but it’s still dumb. I’m driving back to base silently with Alec and Zander, of all people, in my car. I can just imagine the look on my dad’s face if he sees me walking in with these guys. He’s always hated the wolves and has tried to instill it in me that I can never trust a wolf. For the most part I haven’t had any major issues, I just never really liked them. Alec acted like a spoiled little prick when I first met him and Zander Jackson goes with everything Alec says like a little lap dog. Ok maybe not that extreme but pretty close. I guess being a beta will do that to you. Alec caught me off guard when he yelled at me, even more so because he made sense. It actually seemed like he gave a damn about what was going on and wasn’t just sent on this mission by his daddy. Color me surprised. And then he had to go and open his big fat mouth.“So, Captain, are you ready for the season to start?” Alec said.I gave him
Dean’s POV continued- The cells are usually kept pretty dark. Since the wolves have better night vision it’s not a problem for them, but when we turn the bright spot lights on it sure makes it a lot worse for them too. We keep the observation area dark so the rogue can’t see everyone in the room. I decided not to tell Alec and Zander because, well, I still wanted to have a little fun. We got to the interrogation area and I held up a hand so they knew to hold back a bit, then I gave the signal for the lights. The flinching and barely audibly cursing coming from the wolves? Worth it. It took a second for them to recover and I tried my best to hide my smirk as Alec looked at me. “Seriously? Thanks for the warning,” he whispered so only we could hear. I just winked back at him. Yeah he knew I did it on purpose, no reason to hide it. I turned to the rogue and made sure that he was sufficiently bound. Once satisfied, I decided we would start. He was still knocked out but the drug should b
Alec’s POV- Son of a bitch! I knew that the rogue would try something to piss me off, and I walked right into it. I’m usually good at keeping my emotions at bay, but for some reason what he said and how he said it just flipped the switch and Gage started to take over. He would never hurt an innocent, but try and tell the self-righteous Dean that. He had no business kicking us out of the interrogation like that. I would have been fine after a minute to calm Gage down but he didn’t give me or Zander a chance to tell him. I didn’t get to ask any questions or try my own style on the rogue. He wasted such a great opportunity because he was scared. I was hoping for so much more than that. It just added to my frustration, so as soon as we got to the border I told Dean’s guys to let us out and shifted into Gage before taking off back towards the pack house. The run will let me work through this anger and also still talk to Zander in the link. Alec: I’m sorry man. I don’t know why I reacted
Alec’s POV continued- Keira and Amara get to my office just a few moments later. They hadn’t gone far after just meeting here with everyone else, so they were a little confused as to why I asked them back so quickly. “What’s going on Alpha?” Keira asks when they get back in.“Go ahead and sit down. I wanted to speak with you both some more on what you guys talked about with Lucy and what she told you happened. I want to make sure we didn’t miss something that might help.”“Ok well what do you want to know? We told you the major things she told us already,” Amara says.“Yeah I got the Cliff’s notes version, but I want to know everything she said, in detail. And also any feelings you might have gotten from her or anything that you could see from her reactions.” I know it’s a long shot but if I tell my pack to look deeper into things, I have to as well. “Start from the top.”“When we first saw her she was shaking so bad it looked like she was in shock or something,” Keira started. “Alp