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After I’d killed Lazlo, the vampires had been pissed off. The idea had been that we’d create an alliance, but I’d realized that we couldn’t work with creatures who were born of darkness. Letting them in had been a mistake, and we’d pushed them back out again. I’d gotten rid of them in the lab, and I’d rallied the help of the fae to use magic to keep them out where they didn’t belong. It was an extra measure of protection while they cooled down.
They were still causing shit, angry as fuck that I’d taken away a lot of the power I’d initially given them, but the shifters were on it. I had a powerful group of shifters I trusted—an army, if you will—and we could get this under control and keep it there. If Lazlo hadn’t shown his true colors when he had, I might have let this go too far, and we’d have been in deep shit.
Everything had turned out right.
“Here,” Mykel said, handing me a piece of paper when Rory and Liv fell into deep conversation about something, and we turned away from them.
I frowned and opened it. When I read the message, my smile faded.
“Since when?” I asked Mykel.
“A couple of weeks, now.”
“Shit.”
“We’ll figure it out,” Mykel said. “We always do, right?”
“Right…”
Liv’s eyes were on mine when I looked up, sensing my shift in mood, but I shook my head. This wasn’t something I would bug anyone with right now. We were going to focus on the good stuff, celebrating that I didn’t have my dad’s blood disorder, celebrating our wedding, and that order had been restored between the vampires and shifters—mostly.
We drank together, talking and laughing, and I loved the way Liv fit into my life. I would never have imagined I could find a woman I could be with, someone I could love and trust with my life.
“Are we going to go soon?” Liv asked in a husky voice, purring in my ear. I knew what she wanted, and I wanted it, too. My cock twitched in my pants. I was ready to whisk my bride away and make her mine all over again.
“Yeah,” I said.
“I’m going to wrap up a few things, and then I’ll be back,” she said and planted another kiss on my lips.
“If you’re out, I’m finding a honey to take home with me,” Mykel said.
“Good to know your personal life,” Rory said sarcastically.
Mykel laughed. “Hey, let it not be said that I keep secrets from any of you.”
“Some things really should stay secret,” Rory said.
I laughed and clapped Mykel on the back.
When Mykel left, and Liv had gone to check on her things, Rory turned to me.
“What’s up?” she asked. She knew me well enough to know that something serious had happened.
“Turk is missing.”
Rory frowned. “Turk, the new wolf you recruited a while ago?”
I nodded. “It looked like he was settling in fine, but now, he’s gone. The last we heard, he was back home for a while, and then he disappeared.”
“Shit.”
I nodded. “It’s been a couple of weeks. I asked Mykel to put out some feelers. The last place he was seen was back in Minneapolis, so that’s where we have to start looking.”
“Okay?”
“I need you to go there and find him.”
“What?” Rory cried out. “Why me?”
