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“You’re meeting a client?”
“Something like that.”
I close the door and force myself to sit down.
He puts the envelope down and locks gazes with me.
“If this has anything to do with Anchor West, you should know I’m handing that investigation off to the Alpha Coalition.”
I stare at him, feeling like I must have picked something up wrong.
There’s no way he just said he’s done with Anchor West.
“What the fuck?” I mutter.
“I can’t let Leanne go undercover at their offices, and I have to let the whole thing go before it drags us all down any further.”
“Harlan West killed your mother.”
“Yes, he did, but I haven’t found a way to prove that, and the truth is holding on to this case has been destroying me from the inside out. I can’t let it continue, and I won’t compromise our mate’s safety for any reason.”
I can’t believe what I’m hearing. Robotic tone aside, it’s almost as if he’s actually human.
“So, wait,” I tell him, trying to process it all. “You’re passing this along to that weird new Bastards United group?”
He raises an eyebrow at me. “Bastards United?”
“It’s full of Frank Palmer’s illegitimate Alphas.”
“Oh, right. I suppose it is. They care about stopping traffickers.”
“Well, sure,” I murmur, wondering why I feel like he shouldn’t do this.
He’s not going to let Leanne start working at Anchor West now.
Apparently bonding to her made him rethink that stupid plan.
I’m glad about that. I am.
I just didn’t think he would ever let this case go.
I’ve helped him work on it. So has Echo, and Toshi.
We know it’s the single most important case we’ve ever worked on, and it’s nowhere close to being broken. Giving it up feels wrong. It’s like we’re conceding that Harlan’s too powerful to go up against so we’re going to back down.
“If that’s all, I have to go meet someone from the coalition across town.”
It’s crazy. This is the response I wanted from him.
I’ve been watching and waiting for him to show he cares.
Now that he’s finally opened his eyes and made the kind of sacrifice that shows beyond a shadow of doubt that he gives a damn, I can’t help wondering if it’s a mistake.
Not the part about leaving Leanne out of this. I agree wholeheartedly with that part.
It’s the fact that he’s handing it off to someone else entirely that I can’t seem to process.
“You’re serious about this. You’re handing it off to them.”
