By the time they pulled outside the Rio Bar, Reyna was beyond irritated. She had spent the entire ride sandwiched between Cain and Bree, one had spent the entire time not so discreetly ignoring her, oh there were heated glances and because they were sitting next to each other Cain would often reach out and hold her hand, or subtly touch her but that was it. The touches were platonically filled with nothing but worry about her, however, Reyna didn’t like it one bit especially when Bree realized that something was going on between the two, she had spent a good deal of her time chirping like an annoying canary trying to attract Cain’s attention, which he - fortunately, didn’t give her or else she would have stabbed him with a pitchfork at night.“ This place smells of trouble” Cain inhaled the scent of the various shifters and gunpowder circulating in the parking and frowned, “ I think you all better be a bit careful, I don’t want any of

“ Go on, I need more info than that, Rodrigo” prodded Cain as he shook Rodrigo while the latter shivered and hissed “ Can you at least put me down? It’s going to bring me bad publicity in my pack”“ No.”Rodrigo sighed in resignation as he rolled his eyes. “ Like you already know Glenn has formed alliances with packs with which no one wants to alright?”“ Yeah we do, what about it?” asked Reyna as she crossed her arms and looked at him.“ Well, then you will not be surprised after finding out that Glenn has also formed alliances with packs that are on the run.”A pack that was on the run could be on the run for only one reason and that was - The order was after them. Though the order might be nothing but a group of power-hungry old men they still wouldn’t hunt a pack without any rhyme or reason, which means that the Griffin pack dabbled in criminal or illegal activi

Cain’s gaze turned unfocused as if he was lost in a memory, this reaction of him alarmed her. The dominant males in her pack would often show off their battle scars like they were some sort of medals that they have won, Reyna didn’t know why he reacted like this but she didn’t push him for an answer. Instead, she kept her voice gentle as she looked at him, “ Hey, are you okay?”. He double blinked like he was shaking off the daze he was in and then his emotions settled down a bit though the dark energy in him remained, he ran a hand through his hair and cleared his throat before turning to look at her with a smile. “Sorry, I was just a bit lost. Anyway, I got it when Sawyer was attacked.”Reyna didn’t have to be an aide to realise that he was lying, the attackers were as he told her at the first meeting were humans but the claw marks on his neck belonged to a wolf. She also detected the underlying pain and guilt that

Cain almost ground his teeth to dust as he switched on the engine. “ You were not playing along with her, you were playing her.”“ I wasn’t poking fun at her if that’s what you are thinking,” said Reyna as she stared right ahead instead of looking at him which annoyed the heck out of him, like this he couldn’t see what she was feeling not that it was easy to read Reyna Aniston, she was like a locked case with the key thrown somewhere, it was hard to see what exactly went in her mind and that was something that Cain thought was unfair as he was an open book to her that she can read with ease something that couldn’t say for her. “ I was just trying to defend you, I don’t know how you don’t snap even after she interferes in your life like that”Yes, she was defending him. Something no one has ever done for him since they were either too busy with their own demons to care about him. Although Cain didn&

And that was when all hell broke loose, Bryan’s beta suddenly lunged at Cain, his claws aimed right at his heart, and just as the beta dove at him, the two females who left the parlour earlier popped out of nowhere and launched themselves at Reyna. Cain knew that Bryan wasn’t stupid enough to attack them, this was nothing but an act to relay the message that he shouldn’t underestimate their strength, heh- just who was underestimating who here?Cain has seen Reyna fight and even though his wolf wasn’t at ease leaving Reyna facing two females alone, he was confident in her strength. If she could take on so many male enforcers while she was on the run then she will surely be able to take on those two barbie dolls. Instead of worrying about Reyna, he concentrated on the beta who lunged at him- he whipped out of the sofa and ducked, avoiding the claws that were aimed at his heart, the sound of fabric tearing told him that the claws of the beta were stuck in