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“I’ll go where I want to. Get out of my face. I’m sure they need you to search for my nephew.”
He shook his head. “I can’t do that. The queen is here, and she must be protected as well as her family.”
“God, you people and your ways.” She hugged herself and tried to get a hold of the attitude. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t take out my frustration on you. It’s not your fault. I’m not sure whose fault it is. All I want is my sweet nephew, who is innocent.”
“Declan will find him or…”
“Or he’ll burn down our city?”
The man didn’t appear ashamed at all. “Yes.”
“Why can’t you track him?”
“I don’t know.” This time, he seemed troubled. “We are excellent trackers. There shouldn’t be a place the humans can keep the prince that we can’t find. Maybe they’ve removed him from the city, but that shouldn’t matter either.”
Lachelle thought about Gerard and how he reacted when he first arrived. She’d seen the relief in his eyes at seeing her. Something told her no one informed him she was okay before that. She didn’t need a super sniffer to know he had been terrified of her being hurt.
He has no right to care.
The guard, seeing she wouldn’t obey him and go back inside, moved away and faced the street. He kept his eyes peeled for danger, standing stiff and alert. Lachelle wandered to the end of the driveway and scanned the street. Neighbors watched her from the safety of their homes. Not one soul had come out to get a closer look at the happenings, and now that she thought of it, the police never came either. This neighborhood was on its own apparently.
At the end of the block, a sleek black car turned the corner. Lachelle watched as the driver moved slowly along the road. She assumed he was looking for a particular house and that he would pass right by her.
The guard she spoke with earlier slipped up next to her, but he didn’t seem to be nervous that this was going to be a drive by. He bowed his head as the car stopped in front of her. Lachelle frowned, looking from him to the tinted windows she couldn’t see through.
When the door opened and an elegant leg emerged, she groaned. “So you finally showed up, Kelly?”
The bane of her existence stepped out of the car and looked around. She completely ignored Lachelle. “I thought Gerard would be here.”
“Why don’t you do your job as the supposed liaison and stop running behind Gerard!”
At last cool silver eyes focused on Lachelle. “I am doing my job. That’s why I need Gerard. Declan is out of control. With the way he’s acting, he’s risking all of us coming under fire from the military.”
“Maybe you don’t care about his son, but we do.”
“I care.”
“Liar.”
She reddened. “Gerard is the only one who can stop Declan.”
“That’s where you’re wrong. He told me before he left…” She paused for effect over the fact that Gerard had come to her. Kelly almost burst a blood vessel. “He said he can’t control his brother in this state. I saw how
it hurt all the others when Declan went off. It’s killing him to know his son is in danger, and even Gerard was affected. How in the world do you think Gerard is going to slow him down?”
Kelly pursed her lips. “Isn’t it obvious? I will take the lead of the shifters—rather, Gerard and I will.”
Lachelle’s mouth fell open.
“You,” Kelly said to the guard. “You’ll acknowledge me, won’t you? You see how foolish Declan is being?”
“I’m just a regular guy, ma’am, but I’ll follow my leader with loyalty—whoever that leader happens to be.”
Kelly grinned and patted his cheek. “Good boy.”
She spun on her heel and spoke to her driver. “Come on. He’s not here. Why don’t you use that nose of yours and find him.”
“Why don’t you?” Lachelle stopped Kelly from shutting the door as she climbed into the back seat of the car. “Why didn’t you fly here with the others? Why are you in a car? Before I got with Gerard, he flew everywhere. He didn’t even have a license. Come to think of it, he still doesn’t. He hates riding in cars.”
