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“She mentioned Turk,” I added. “I want to know what she’s playing at.”
“So, she mentioned Turk,” Remus said with a shrug, and he laced his fingers behind his head, getting comfortable. “So what? You knew he was going to New York. You banked on him getting in with Colter’s crowd. Now you’re upset he’s doing the same this way around?”
I shook my head. It wasn’t the same at all. It was one thing when I sent in a spy. It was another when someone tried to spy on me.
Turk Rowe was the son of a very powerful shifter here in Minneapolis. Dario Rowe and I had been close for a long, long time. When I’d heard that Colter was trying to change the order of things, fuck with the system and gain more power by getting the vampires on his side, I had to know what was going on. That much power was dangerous. In our line of work, we didn’t stop when we were at the top. It was always a fight to stay there, and I wasn’t going to let some other alpha become more powerful. What if he wanted to gain more territory?
These days, shifters stuck to city and state borders for the most part, but there had been a time when the country wasn’t as clearly divided into states and cities as it was now, and it was just a matter of how much a shifter could claim. The only boundaries were the Canadian and Mexican borders, and the ocean on either side.
It used to be a hell of a playpen, and not everyone was okay with the way things were now.
Dario had told me Turk was going to New York, and I liked that idea, so Turk could scope out the situation with the vampires. Colter had been in the middle of rallying the vampires and close to succeeding. It had blown up in his face. I’d heard from Turk, and now that it was all over, there was no need to worry. He had his hands full with a new mate, and a woman was in enough trouble that I didn’t have to worry about him anymore.
At least, that was what I’d thought, until one of his wolves showed up.
“Look, I’ll see what I can find, but I don’t think it’s necessary to lose your shit over this,” Remus said.
I narrowed my eyes at him. “Who said I’m losing my shit?”
“You’re never this worked up over a girl,” Remus pointed out.
He had a point. I didn’t usually get worked up over any woman—shifter or not. I was more powerful than most of the enchanted beings in the state, and I knew what I wanted. I fucked and forgot. Every woman was willing to give me what I needed, with no expectation for anything in return, only hope that I quickly squashed. I had bigger fish to fry, and a woman was just a distraction.
Rory, though… The Holden girl had gotten me hot and bothered, and it pissed me off. She’d challenged me, gotten right up in my face, and although it had been infuriating, it had been a hell of a turn-on. She was hot, and that attitude made me want to spin her around, bend her over the table, and fuck her.
My cock twitched in my pants just thinking about it. I tugged at my belt before I turned around and walked to my desk.
“Maybe you should ask Sabrione about it,” Remus said.
I glanced at him. Sabrione was fae and my personal soothsayer. She kept me on track, she kept me sane, and she looked out for my personal well-being with spells and premonitions that had saved my ass time and time again.
Fae were usually travelers, but her family had abandoned her. She’d been too powerful, her magic bordering on darkness that scared them, and they’d ditched her when they’d left. All the fae that worked for me were outcasts, and they’d banded together to form a new family that broke fae norms.
“I’ll think about it,” I said.
I wanted to ask Sabrione about it, but if I did, it would suggest that Rory’s presence made me feel threatened, and I wasn’t going to admit that to Remus. I wasn’t going to tell him just how worked up she’d gotten me tonight.
Shit, the last time I’d felt this serious about a woman had been before Aster had died.
I’d been so caught up in that woman, so convinced she’d been my soulmate, that I’d nearly lost everything when I’d lost her.
She was the reason I would never date again. A man got too wrapped up in a woman and lost sight of what was most important. It was better to focus on the right things and leave love to the fools who figured they had nothing to lose.
I looked at Remus. “Anything else before you head home?”
“Yeah, actually. Dario called earlier. He wants to see you. He’s back in town after his business trip.”
“Good,” I said. “Set it up.”
Remus wasn’t exactly a secretary, but he dealt with the important shit that I didn’t want anyone else to know about. I had secretaries that ran the various businesses I owned during the day, but Remus was one of the few people I could really trust, so I let him deal with the sensitive cases.
Like my meetings with Dario.
Like why Rory Holden was in town.
“I’ll get on it,” Remus said. “And Turk, too?”
“Yeah, tell Dario to bring Turk along. Maybe he’ll know something we don’t.”
