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"Then prove she’s alive, call her," I tell him, knowing I would recognize her voice anywhere.

Jake shakes his head. "No, we just got her to a good place. I am not getting her hopes up only for you to decide not to come. So again, Harlow, do you want my help in getting out of here?" he asks.

How can I trust him? For all I know, he could be the one who killed Thane's mother and set me up. He could whisk me away only for me to find out my sister is indeed dead.

"What do you mean about her not being in a good place?" I ask him.

"Our pack has lost a lot. I am not willing to lose my mate or this baby by destressing her," he tells me.

My sister is pregnant? That makes no sense. She’s dead. I saw the autopsy report.

"Then how am I supposed to believe you if you won't let me speak to her?" I tell him.

He slides a folded piece of paper over to me. "My number. I am staying in town until my meeting on Friday with Thane. Decide before then. I have to leave on Friday to get back to my family," he says, standing up and sliding his stool under the bar.

"Did you have anything to do with Thane's mother's death?" I ask. His brows pinch.

"No, you killed her. Didn't you?" he asks, seemingly genuinely perplexed. I shake my head.

"But Thane thinks you did?"

"He won't let me explain. They have some shitty grainy footage of me leaving a restaurant with his mother before she died. But I didn’t do it. We were run off the road and attacked after that. She told me to run."

"Can you prove this?" he asks. I shake my head, knowing I can't. No one else was on the road besides the people that tried to capture me.

"Have you told Thane this?" he asks.

"I tried; he wouldn't listen," I admit.

"I'll look into it. But remember, Harlow, Friday. Decide by then or I will leave without you," he says before leaving.

I am so confused. He was acting very differently when I saw him at the office a couple weeks ago. Like two completely different people, and I don't know which version of him to trust. If he is right about the laws changing around Omega purchases, that is also more motive to try to deceive me.

When my shift ends, I quickly change back into my clothes. I'm about to leave when Bree hands me a plastic bag.

"Your shoes and clothes from the other night," she tells me, and I curse. I left the clothes and shoes I borrowed from her at the hotel.

"Thanks, I will return yours tomorrow when I come in," I tell her before bidding her goodbye, catching a cab back to the hotel, and doing my normal after-work ritual of ridding myself of the scents from work before my mates arrive.

Chapter Seventy-Four

~Raidon~

We've waited for Thane to fire Sarah all day, and it is almost over. I swear it’s almost as if he is punishing us for going against him last night. Hearing my door handle twist, I look up and glare at the door, hoping it isn't Sarah. Relief floods me when I see it is just Rhen, and my body visibly relaxes. Leaning back in my chair, I fold my arms across my chest.

"Have you heard from your mother about Harlow’s blood test yet? They should have come back by now," Rhen asks. I sigh, reaching for my phone and calling my mother.

"I will ask her," I tell him, dialing her number. "Has Thane fired her yet?" I ask as I hit the call button.

"No, but I will before the end of the day if he doesn't," Rhen tells me.

The phone rings twice before she answers.

"What’s wrong, son? You can't wait five minutes to speak to me," she says, and my brows furrow.

"I am calling about Harlow's blood tests," I tell her.

"Well, we can chat soon; I am just about to step into the elevator. I got those glazed donuts you like, and some for Sarah. She is such a lovely girl," Mom tells me, and I press my lips in a line; that bitch even got her hooks into my mother.