DAD: Kiara, can we talk?
KIA: No, I’m going to bed.
I tossed my phone onto the small sofa in the girls’ room and running my fingers through my hair.
I walked to the window and stared out into the night sky. I saw Alejandro, Raihana, Chris, and Mom head out and clenched my jaw, feeling helpless.
This was wrong. This child was going to feel as if he was a prisoner. He was a child, not a monster.
I closed my eyes, leaning against the wall, turning away from the window.
Goddess, protect all our children…
Alejandro
I hated hurtingher, but she was stubborn. I would listen to her, too… but I needed to do what was best for my family and me. If that meant taking this pup, then so be it. Scarlett wasn’t meant to come, but I knew she came to fucking make sure the child was okay, probably to reassure her daughter.
The silence was deafening. Raihana was frowning, and I knew her disagreement with Kiara in the kitchen was playing on her mind. As much as I loved others to get at each other’s fucking throats, when it came to two women I loved, it wasn’t as fucking fun.
“Kiara is right in one aspect of what she said,” Scarlett stated, falling in step with me. I didn’t bother looking at her. I got her point, but I needed to do this shit.
“Yeah? Well, if you don’t want to be here, don’t,” I replied coldly.
“I didn’t say that. Don’t twist my words,” she growled, her eyes flashing silver.Fucking Alpha female…
“I’m not. I’m just not in the fucking mood to hear shit when I know I have to make some fucking decisions that aren’t fucking easy,” I shot back, my voice harsh and cold, but I didn’t really care. I hated it when Kiara wasangry at me.
“I get that. Just remember, heisa child,” she replied quietly.
We didn’t speak again until we entered the pack headquarters and went up to my office.
“Babe, can you clear the floor?” Raihana asked Chris, who gave her a nod and moved the chairs back whilst I pushed my table aside. “I’ll set some barriers just in case they try to locate him when we pull him through. I don’t know how strong they will be, but I’ll try.”
“Is doing this on pack territory wise?” Chris asked, glancing out the window.
“It’s safest since the grounds have been spelled, too,” I replied as Raihana opened the bag Chris had been holding that contained her supplies.
She began to draw symbols on the ground with one of her jars of ash. I never got this mojo shit, or how the fuck it worked, but it sure was fucking useful to have at hand. Scarlett stood there, arms crossed, a frown on her face as she watched her intently.
“Aunty Red, if you keep staring, I can’t focus…” Raihana remarked.
“Don’t mind me,” Scarlett replied with a small smirk, but she did turn her back on Raihana and instead turned her attention to me. “Where are you keeping him?”
“I’m not fucking answering to you,” I replied, leaning against my desk and taking out a cigarette.
“Uncle, no smoking. I don’t need anything messing with the spell,” Raihana warned, and I fucking pocketed it. Today was not my fucking day…
Kiara?I called through the link, but she had put her block up.
I frowned deeply, taking my phone out of my pocket instead. The urge to message her was strong, but… I needed to do it in person. I shoved it back into my pocket just as Chris spoke.
“If this kid is raised to be anything like his father, he may not give us the answers we need. Then what’s the plan?” He asked.
“Then I’ll have to probe his mind,” Raihana replied, taking the cloth I had taken from Kataleya before she went to bed.
“I’m not risking you doing that. If the Djinn had anything in place, I don’t want you hurt,” he remarked, but despite his level tone, his cocky smirk that was always on his face was gone.
“I’ll be fin-”
