Chapter 66
I watch her leave, driving away from me, only this time I let her go. I just hoped I made the right decision. Prayed she came back
to us and keeps her word. “You did the right thing,” Khan tells me, and I sigh.
Somehow I doubted that, some part of me believing past behavior would be also her future behavior. I would forever be chasing
her, and she would always be running from me.
“Maybe we walk then, be less work.” Khan offers at my thoughts. Silly wolf, yet I still chuckle at his idiocy.
Walking back inside, I mindlink border patrol to let her pass. Only for Eli to open up the mindlink. “So do I follow her, like at a
distance?” he asks. It was honestly tempting, I wanted her back and my sons.
“No, return home once she passes the patrols, come pick me up, we have that meeting in two hours.” I tell him.
“You don’t want me to follow her?” he asks sounding shocked, before I can answer he speaks again.
“Khan, is this you?” he asks, uncertain.
“No,” he answers, and I facepalm myself. Idiot, now he will think it is him.
“Give him back control, Khan! I need my orders.”
“It’s not Khan. Well, that was. Leave her be. Come pick me up. I’ll see you soon.”
“Fine, Khan, but if you fuck me over and Axton skins me, I’ Il bite off and cook your tail.” I shake my head.
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“Why my tail?”
“Probably be the only bite I’ll get before I have to tuck tail and run myself,” Eli answers him.
“Yeah, you would wanna run fast. I like my tail. It’s extral bushy.” Khan tells him proudly, in an extra cheerful mood.
“Okay, both of you fools, stop, Khan, stop answering him and Eli. Khan sounds different from me, idiot.”.
“Not in the mindlink. You both sound the same to me, only he is louder now I come to think of it.” I blink at what he said. And this
was my Beta?
Walking inside, I block both of them out and head to my room to get dressed for the meeting. Stepping inside my room, her scent
lingers on everything, and I inhale deeply. The bond thrumming on my side and I could feel her excitement at going home, yet
also her anxiousness.
Stepping into the bathroom, I was about to take a shower when I stopped, knowing I would be washing her scent off my skin.
“Oh, don’t you dare become one of those creeps? You will be showering.” Khan shoves forward.
“I will, but not now,” I tell him. “But I’m not washing her pil- low.” I laugh, and he shakes his head at me as I move to the walk-in
closet. I grab a suit bag out, drop it on the bed and unzip it. It takes me twenty minutes to get dressed as I try to remember where
I put my shoes. Finding them, a knock sounds on the door, and I yell out to Eli that it’s unlocked.
He enters just as I sit on the bed and place my shoes on. Eli is also dressed in a suit. Only his is navy while mine is black. He
runs his fingers through his gelled hair.
“So it was really you?”
“Yes. I said it was.” I tell him standing upright.
“You’re seriously letting her go?” I roll my eyes at him. “Yes, Eli. She’ll come back. I hope.” I grab my wallet off the bedside table,
moving toward the door.
“And if she doesn’t?”
“We’ll deal with that if it comes to it.” Eli seems unsure at my change of mind but adds nothing else, instead following me down to
his car. I drop into the passenger seat. The drive to city hall takes fifteen minutes. The entire time, I am stuck answering emails
when a new one pops up. It is from the morgue, an autopsy report. It was the same as the last three. Another body drained of
blood.
Twelve people have gone missing. Four accounted for all drained of blood, and another eight are missing. Which is what this
meeting was about. Yet we all had the same ques- tion, how were they getting into the city?
Pulling up out the front, I am shocked to see Derrick had bothered to show up after the other night. Yet his car is parked there
The moment I step out of the car, I spot him standing by the doors, talking to Thomas. Growling, I move toward the doors just as
he spots me and starts stomping over. “Where the fuck is my Luna and son?” he snarls.
“Where you can’t get them,” I answer, ignoring him and continuing toward the building. Derrick, however, seems to be on a
warpath because he grabs my arm. I pivot, shoving him back.
“Remember whose city you’re in, Derrick. Remember who you’re dealing with. I am not your wife or daughter. I won’t al- low you
to walk all over me.”
“You kidnapped them. I want them back now!” He screams at me, and my hand moves in a blink. Derrick’s head snaps.
backward, and he clutches his nose. Khan having taken over and punched him, Derrick snarls only for Khan to shove for- ward
and hit him again, making him stumble when I hear mur- murs. “Ax!” Eli hisses as the media, who were waiting around for
information on the meeting, start whipping phones out. Lost in my thoughts, I hadn’t even noticed them, but the last thing we
need is them publishing a headline that a tyrant Al- pha is running the city.
“Khan you fool.”
“So what? He deserved it. And not like it isn’t splashed all over the papers about the fight the other night anyway.” he
retorts.
Eli waves them off to put their phones away when I grab Derrick and drape my arms across his shoulder and squeeze it. “Smile
and fucking wave, asshole,” I pass him a handker- chief, and he snatches it, wiping the blood from his face.
“I want in on the meeting.” he grits out. “Fine, but I can’t afford bad press right now,” I growl. He huffs like he won some battle.
Not that it mattered anyway. He was going to be required to attend anyway; we needed all packs to be on the lookout.
After barely touching him without killing him for a few minutes, we headed inside. Walking, I scan my hand on the panel to get
into the conference room and shove the door
open. Eli follows me in along with Derrick, and I take my seat at the head of the table.
Eli hands out the tablets, and we all open them with our fingerprints when Marco from the supernatural council wan- ders on in.
He was here to help with the vampire issue, and who better than a bloodsucker to do the job? Marco moves around the room,
Thomas sits up straighter and so do a few of the elders, suddenly nervous about having a vampire in our midst.