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I growl, wondering who her mystery boyfriend is. Derrick clearly wants me to go in there and get myself caught up by killing a human, believing he is something more to Elena than he truly is.
“And you think she is at this cafe?”
“Jake owns it, but the woman… She said Elena was in trouble. I heard that part before Derrick hung up on her.”
“How long ago was this call? Who is this boyfriend she has?”
Louise shakes her head. “That call came in days ago, almost a week since I overheard Derrick on the phone. Elena has never had a boyfriend. Derrick never allowed it. I’m pretty sure Jake is gay, though I never met him; Derrick has. I know he said Jake is human.” She sighs, glancing back at her car.
“I have to go, but please, see if you can find her.”
“If you’re so worried about her, why don’t you go?”
“Derrick would kill me. He wants nothing to do with her, but she is still my daughter,” she tells me before quickly rushing back to her car.
I watch as she climbs in and shuts the door before speeding off. I glance down at the paper and look at the bank where I am supposed to be having my meeting in twenty minutes. Heading toward the doors, I stop and growl, feeling Khan’s nervous energy. Opening the mind link, I contacted Eli.
Khan is very anxious. “If what her mother says is true, that means that this Jake isn’t the nice guy Louise thinks he is. This explains why Elena’s wolf is all over the place with her emotions. It’s like she feels trapped and without hope. And who is the woman who called Derrick? Something doesn’t feel right. It never did since Elena ran off. You better go see. Our pups are at risk.”
“Cancel my meeting and meet me at the city limits,” I tell Eli.
“Why? What’s going on?”
“I think I know where she is,” I tell him, and Eli sighs.
“See you soon,” he tells me, and I run back to my car.
I unlock it, tossing my paperwork on the backseat before reversing out. That was a fucking important meeting. She better be there because if her mother’s just sent me on a wild goose chase, I will kill the bitch. Either Derrick is setting me up, or Louise is. Hell, both of them could be setting me up to fall.
“Khan, I need you on your game when we go to this cafe. Don’t do anything stupid to get us kicked off the council. Killing humans is forbidden.”
Khan growls back at me. ”You already did something stupid the day you posted our mate for the world to see.”
Chapter
Thirty-Two
Elena
Sniffling, I wipe my nose on the back of my sleeve; the tears haven’t stopped since he killed her, and my teeth chatter from the shock. My shaking is uncontrollable. Jake has allowed me to keep my clothes for once. Not that I care about anything right now. I have known Alisha all my life; she has always been a permanent fixture. Lexa has done nothing but wail in my head, in her grief. And I just want it to end, wishing he would just kill me and get it over with.
After he killed her, Jake led me upstairs. My ass and back burn furiously from his belt as I sit in the chair at the dining table. He spent a good hour fixing the door I broke the locks off of, and he is now cooking me lunch. I am not hungry. Jake sets the plate down on the table in front of me. His entire demeanor has changed. It is almost as if I have imagined it all. And if I couldn’t still feel the welts tarnishing my skin, I may have believed him as he sings and moves about the kitchen in a cheery mood. Lost in despair, I don’t come back to my surroundings until he comes to sit by me.
I don’t move or even look at the food he’s placed in front of me. I just stare blankly, coming to terms with my fate and that of my babies. We are all going to die. No one will ever know what happened to me or Alisha. It will be like we never existed. None of this would have happened if I’d never gone with Axton to his hotel room. I should have rejected him the moment those elevator doors opened.
“I made your favorite. Sunny side up,” he tells me, nudging my plate closer as he takes his seat.
I don’t know where he got that idea about eggs being my favorite, nor do I care because I won’t be eating them. Alisha’s death just keeps replaying on a permanent loop inside my head. How I failed her, and I have no way of letting her mother, Julie, know.
“Eat, pet. I made it specially for you,” he tells me while sipping his coffee. “How about you eat that all up, and I will run you a bath? Then, we can watch movies and spend the day resting together.”
I glare at him. Jake is a sick fuck, cruel, and a fucking monster. It sickens me that we’ve been friends with him for years and had no idea we were just lambs to the slaughter.
Nothing they ever taught us could have prepared me for it. No one knew they could compel you or command you to do as they pleased. We had always been taught they couldn’t compel us because of our wolves, yet in our human form, that was clearly wrong. If they did, I don’t know if it would have made a difference, seeing as I couldn’t shift; I was basically human while pregnant, unable to fight his compulsions. He is so much faster and stronger than they’d taught us. Probably from drinking werewolf blood. As old as my father is, even he couldn’t tell the monster hidden behind the facade Jake had put on. And Alisha couldn’t even escape his charms. All that trying got her was a slow, torturous death.
“Go fuck yourself,” I tell him.
Jake tilts his head to the side. His eyebrows raise, and Lexa whimpers in my head at my words. She doesn’t want me putting our babies at risk, but they already are, and he will eventually kill us. I would rather it be before they were born than after, not knowing what would happen to them.
