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“God FUCKING DAMNIT.” A crash follows the yell and I rush out to the backyard to see he’s thrown a flowerpot against the side of the house in his anger. Making my way over to him, I ignore his protests and throw my arms around the giant Alpha, holding him as tightly as I can.
“Just give in, big guy. You need this as much as I do right now,” I mumble into his solid chest.
He finally relents, hugging me back. “I can’t fucking do this, Lee. I need her,” he says, his deep voice breaking on the last word.
Looking up and seeing tears dripping down his cheeks, my own eyes water in response. I’ve always been sensitive to the emotions of others as a Beta, but I feel my pack’s as if they’re my own. I’m incredibly grateful for that in times like these.
“We have to do this, Rook. Blake is out there alone, and she needs us to pull it together for her and send her as much love and calm through the bonds as possible. We’re a fully bonded pack but right now we’re acting like a bunch of rogue feral idiots who don’t know how to trust other people to help us. We need to be leaning on each other. It’s the only way we’ll find her. Andwe need to find her.”
“He’s right man,” Hades croaks out behind us. I jump, my cheeks flushing slightly when I realize how close I am to Rook. I turn my head just as his arms circle us both and squeeze tight.
“I love you guys. We were a pack before we found Blake and we’ll always be a pack no matter what, but she makes us better in so many ways. So, let’s grab the others, hug it out, then buckle down and find our girl,” he says passionately before yelling for Kas and Kai.
They come out of the house with somber looks on their faces until they see us. Kai’s lips quirk to the side, but Kas’ cheeks are sucked in like he’s chewing on them. He and Blake share that anxious habit and thankfully it’s easy to spot.
“Come on, y’all. Mandatory pack hug.”
Kairo grins like a maniac at D’s statement, wrestling his twin into a headlock when he groans in protest. Within seconds they’re in on the hug and I’m being crushed by four enormous Alphas.
Tapping Rook and Hades’ arms, I let out a dramatic gasping breath. “Y’all… can’t… breathe… slowly… suffocating.”
Their laughs are exactly what I wanted to hear, and I feel so much more centered than I did twenty minutes ago. These men are my family and feeling their heartbreak on top of my own is miserable.
“Alright,” Kai claps his hands together loudly. “Let’s find our girl.”
* * *
Three days later, we finally have a lead. It’s a pretty safe assumption her pig of a foster father kidnapped her, so we’re back in Asheville at their house with a group of agents from the DIA.
“Listen up!” The agent in charge, Reid, shouts. “Team Alpha will be our tactical team. Team Bravo is the Beaumont pack accompanied by Detective Benson. Team Charlie is myself and the victim coordinators. This mission is arrest and recovery. We get in, look for the girl, and handcuff anybody in the house not wearing our gear. Got it?”
The mood is serious as everybody nods and I’m blown away by the amount of people that volunteered to be here to help us find Blake. Checking my bulletproof vest one more time, I take a deep breath when we’re given the go-ahead to breach the shack behind the main house. I can hear Dianne kicking up a fuss when the warrant is served, but honestly, I don’t fucking care. That woman knewsomethingall these years and chose to support her piece of shit husband.
The door is already open when we get there, and I exchange an uneasy look with the guys. There’s a terrible smell in the air and the place is a disaster. There are open takeout containers and beer cans fuckingeverywhere,but that’s not what the smell is. The closer we get to what’s obviously the basement door, the worse the smell gets.
Gagging, Kas leads us down the stairs slowly. “Oh, holy fuck!” I hear him shout. Rushing the rest of the way down the stairs, I’m assaulted with a smell so bad I have to plug my nose and fight off a gag each time I breathe through my mouth. There, on the floor, is Phil. He’s been shot point blank through the center of his head and this time, I do gag.
“If you’re going to vomit, boys, do it outside. Don’t destroy my crime scene.”
Turning watering eyes to the doorway, I see Reid standing with his arms crossed, a slight tilt to his lips that wasn’t there earlier.
Rook growls before lunging at the agent, gripping his jacket and shoving him into the wall. D and Kai pull him back, but they don’t look much better off.
“Why the fuck are you smiling right now when our Omega is still missing and the fucker that took her is dead? We just lost our only viable lead!” he shouts, the orange in his scent going so bitter it’s nearly caustic.
Reid looks a little more serious now, but not like he’s angry. “We are going to do everything in our power to find your girl, Rook. I need you to trust me. Any joy on my face was completely due to the fact that there is now one less sick fucker in the world to do this to other girls. We have his cell, we have all of his bank records, we’ll find the bastard that has your girl, okay?”
I find myself nodding, pulling their attention my way. I shrink slightly under their glares but push on anyway. “He’s right, guys. Hades, one of the reasons for your nightmares is gone, and the proof is lying cold in front of you. If anybody in this fucked up world can find out who has our girl, it’s us. Get outside, take a deep breath, and let’s get this shit done. We have an Omega to find.”
ChapterThirty
FRIENDS WHO ARE SOLD TOGETHER
Blake
Numb. It’s the only thing I can get myself to feel for however long I’ve been in this cage. Phil was a truly awful human being, but seeing him murdered right in front of me, feeling hisbloodhit my face. That broke something inside of me I didn’t even know could break. The only way I know how to cope is to just… not feel it.
So, I sit in my cage. Cold, hungry, and silent. The stranger who shot Phil had men with him that loaded my metal prison into the back of a large SUV before they plunged another needle into my neck, granting me the temporary bliss of total darkness.
