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“I think Seb’s telling you to not insult his mate, love,” Edward says, and I nod firmly. I hold onto Maia’s thighs and glare at my mum, making it very clear where I stand.
My mum shakes her head, fake shock filling her, as she appeals to my mate. “I’m sorry, Maia, honey. I didn’t mean to act like you were inferior. I just meant that, as someone who also used to be human, you won’t realise the difference of how much better you are as a wolf until you’re in the situation to appreciate it. I had all the knowledge before I was turned, but it didn’t make a difference to my actual understanding.
“You can’t grasp the level of power you’ll have, how much stronger and better you will be, once you’re a wolf, too. Right now, in your human body, you’re limited. But as a wolf? You’ll have power at your disposal that you wouldn’t even dream about.”
“I don’t care much for power,” Maia says softly. My mum’s eyes flash with shock, but Maia turns back to Alex. “So removing the scents would take away part of someone’s identity, yes?”
Alex nods, hiding his smirk. “Yes. Depending on how adept these neutralising agents are, the person using them could do so much damage.”
And we’ve already seen the evidence of what can be done with them.
Maia sits up even straighter. “They could steal a pack’s scent and intermingle or even try to imitate a familial one. They could pretend to be human and hide away completely,” she muses, and whilst my dick hardens at her intelligence, this knowledge only puts Kane and I on edge.
My superior scent tracking ability is one of the biggest things I can provide to my mate. I can smell danger, I can protect her in ways the others can't.
I might not be as much of a cyber genius as Ben, or a political genius as Topher. I don’t even have Alex’s ease or abilities to remain in control despite everything happening.
But I can sense enemies as far as a few miles away. I can scent the rogues that would seek to harm our pack, or I could determine if anyone close by was feeling hostile towards her.
This is my job.
I’ve been failing it over the last few months. I’ve been missing the signs, unable to track them, and keep her safe.
“With their new agent, they seek to take our biggest strength from us,” Kane hisses. “They seek to incapacitate us. But for what end?”
“These kinds of advancements are dangerous.”
“Criminal, one might say,” Kane says, losing some of his anger. “This can’t have been something that we’d approve of. Which would make his death… justice.”
Well, fuck.
Maia notices the way my body has shifted, and her soft blue eyes rake over my features, trying to figure out why. I bring her close and kiss her forehead before she turns back around to the group.
“And that’s the danger we’d face,” Edward says softly. “We’d lose our biggest advantage, our biggest built-in protection. If we can’t even trust our noses, what can we trust?”
“So you decided to kill him,” Topher says, raising an eyebrow, although his statement is said simply. He doesn’t have any judgement in his tone, and I don’t blame him. If they had proof of this, it wouldn’t be an illegal kill within the bounds of our laws.
And even if they didn’t have evidence… that can always be doctored after the fact.
I’d know. We’ve done it ourselves plenty of times.
Killing isn’t hard for us, as long as you operate within the werewolf laws, and they’re pretty open for the most part. We are beasts, after all.
“We realised he needed to be neutralised,” Charles corrects, shooting Maia a nervous look. My mate looks sad, as if this is bothering her, but I can smell the intrigue in her scent.
I can pick up the small hints of curiosity buried just underneath her despair, smell the layer of anger she’s trying to hide.
“Smart mate,” I say.
“Incredibly smart. She knows something—hopefully, that’ll be able to help us,” Kane says.
“We had two goals,” my mum says, now relying on this information drop to try and get us back on her side. “The first was to take out Ryan so that the progress on the project would stop, and the second was to demolish the company so that nobody else would resume something as dangerous as he attempted.”
“And did you have a whole plan on how these goals of yours would be achieved?” Alex asks.
Our four parents exchange looks, but my mum is the one who nods.
“Two years ago, as you all know, I went to our biannual meeting with the Lunas in our area, and, of course, Aurora was there with Ethan.”
