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“Just listen to her, please,” she begged. “You don’t have anything left to lose.”
Her words stung, but I nodded, clenching my jaw.
When I walked into the living room, a female stood with her back to me, her long brown hair tied up in a high ponytail. When she turned around, I didn’t recognize her. She had a round face and gentle eyes, but her face was riddled with worry.
“Alpha,” she said and bowed her head before tilting it to the side. She offered me her neck. It was a very primal custom, something we didn’t do so often anymore—she deferred to my authority, giving me her neck so I could bite into it if I wanted to. It was the utmost form of respect.
“Who are you?” I asked.
“My name’s Nadia,” she said. “I’m Oaklee’s best friend.”
“What do you want?” I asked. I tried not to sound too gruff, but I was pissed off, and I didn’t have time for whatever this woman had to say about Oaklee.
“She’s been taken.”
My body ran cold.
“What?”
“Tate broke into my apartment where she was hiding, and he took her. I don’t know what he’s doing to her, but…” Her voice cracked, and her eyes welled with tears. “I think he’ll kill her.”
“What would he do that for?” I scoffed. “They’re in cahoots.”
Nadia furrowed her eyebrows. “They’re not. She would never work with him. Do you know what he did to her? He ruined her life, took everything away from her, did terrible things to her… he’ll kill her for taking his amulet.”
“His what?” I asked, narrowing my eyes.
“It’s this thing he has that holds a lot of power, and Oaklee took it to get revenge on him and to destroy it so that he doesn’t have all that power. She couldn’t get someone to help her, and now he’s found her.”
I stared at her, my mind and my heart warring with each other.
“She’s going to die, Jameson,” Nadia said. “I wouldn’t have come here if I thought there was anything else that could be done, but—”
“I’ll take care of it,” I cut her off.
Nadia pursed her lips, her eyes still shimmering with unshed tears.
“Thank you,” she said and bowed her head again before she walked to the front door.
I turned to Carletta.
“It’s not right,” she said.
She’d been saying it the whole time I’d lost my shit with Oaklee.
Oaklee wasn’t working for her father, she was working against him. She wasn’t giving him power, she was trying to take it away. She wasn’t hiding from me, she was in danger.
Fuck. How had I fucked up like this?
I had to do something.
“I’m going out,” I said to Carletta.
“Let me come,” she said.
“No.” My sister was already so weak, she couldn’t handle whatever Tate might do to her, too.
“I can’t just sit here and do nothing. We did that the first time, and we lost Delaney.”
