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“I remember,” Topher says, sneering at our mum. “I was there, too. I didn’t realise you were using that very important platform to try and launch your assassination attempt right under everyone’s noses, though.”
She rolls her eyes as if the death of her nephew is nothing. As if flaunting it in front of said nephew’s fiancé and child is nothing.
Maybe Kane’s right, and my distaste for people came from her. At least I got something handy from her, rather than her stupidity.
“You already know that I’m always right, human,” Kane says.
“I’m a woman, Christopher, I can multitask,” she says, and Topher rolls his eyes. “Whilst we were there, I met up with a neutral member of our society who was willing to… fix this little issue for us.”
Maia’s heart is pounding, pure devastation leaking out from her scent.
It destroys me having to sit here and act like this isn’t an issue.
Like the blasé way my mum is talking about her dead fiancé is nothing when my mate’s very soul is screaming out for help.
“You found a rogue willing to kill Ryan,” Topher says, and Maia gasps. Julie nods as if this is nothing. “And what happened to him, since he clearly didn’t try to kill Ryan?”
“No, he did. Unfortunately, the attempt was thwarted by Ryan,” George says. “And the rogue we contracted ended up dead.”
Maia’s doing her best to appear calm and collected. She’s trying to hide the pain that she’s in.
“It’ll not be easy for her to learn that the man she loved was targeted numerous times and could never tell her. His life was in danger. He nearly died, at least once, but more than likely numerous times, and yet, she never knew.”
I kiss her neck once more, wrapping my arms around her and our sleeping infant, hating the truth of my wolf’s words.
“Coincidental,” Topher says, eyeing up our parents. “And what did you offer the rogue in return?”
“Absolution from his crimes, of course,” my mum says sweetly.
Topher growls low. “You’re foolish. The lot of you.”
“Ryan didn’t know who was behind the attempt,” Edward says, trying to salvage the conversation.
“I bet he didn’t,” Kane snarks.
“We figured out after a couple more failed attempts that it wasn’t going to be as easy to take Ryan out as we first assumed,” Edward says, and it’s embarrassing that he once again gives my mate an apologetic look.
As if his little sad eyes are going to undo the hurt she’s feeling.
And they say I am the one with no people skills. Pathetic.
“So, instead, we started focusing on the company itself,” Charles continues.
“So you tried to kill him numerous times. Each attempt failing, which is just embarrassing for everyone involved,” Ben says. “It’s quite a boring tale, really. Three powerful alphas, past their prime, failing at life day after day, being thwarted by a little baby wolf with no mate, pack, or true resources behind him.”
I raise an eyebrow, waiting for my brother to get past the dramatics and share what he knows or ask what it is that he needs to know.
“What I want to know is, how you learnt about this situation in the first place,” Ben says, scooting his chair back from my right and kicking his feet up on the table. The sound of it dragging across the floor grates on me, and the smell of mud on his shoes tickles my nose. “It took us some digging to find the link between Ryan and Fresh Fur, and even still, we didn’t realise he was a founding member. All we knew was that he attended meetings with them.”
Maia looks up at me, silently communicating something with me, and I hate that I don’t know what. I cup her cheek, pressing a soft kiss to her forehead, mouthing the words “not here” across her forehead.
Whatever knowledge she has is not going to be put in my parents hands.
In us securing the pack leadership, they’ve lost the ability to command us, and in their failures, it becomes our job to figure it out.
But that doesn’t mean my parents aren’t going to fight against this new status quo. It doesn’t mean that they don’t still have their own agenda that they’re going to try and push underneath our noses.
We just need to be ready for it, and in doing so, we’re not going to give them any information they could use to undermine us.
