With those words, he marched out the door.Asher took a deep breath, relaxing his tense muscles.
“Fuck,” he whispered.“How the hell did the red death get resurrected?”
Juniper flashed through his mind, and fear pushed up into his throat.She and Clover were in danger, and he absolutely could not allow them to be hurt.He pulled out his phone and placed a call.
“We have a problem,” he said as soon as the other end connected.“The red death is back.”
“Impossible.”
“Apparently not,” Asher glowered.“Two people have died.I need to protect Juniper and Clover—”
“At what price?”
“People are dying!Don’t we have an obligation to that?”
“Remember the past.Remember what they did.”
Asher let out a frustrated sigh.“They’re different.”
“They’re not.”
“We should help.”
“It’s not our place to help.It would make no difference.”
The phone call abruptly ended.
“Damn it,” he muttered.Fear struck him, along with a heavy dose of guilt.He was afraid this was going to get worse.
Much worse.
Chapter Nine
In an instant, everythingchanged.
Alpha Jericho closed non-essential businesses, which included the coffee shop and the school.Juni had to watch Clover mope since she couldn’t play with her friends, and it broke her heart.Now that she’d had a taste of being a little girl, she didn’t want to go back to the isolation she’d endured.Meanwhile, terror tried clawing its way up Juni’s throat and she battled it constantly.What would happen if Clover got sick like their father?What if she died?
