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“But he didn’t see me, right? There’s no actual evidence linking you to me being missing?” Lavender asked, her eyes wide and full of worry. Part of me wanted to laugh, she was concerned for us. Two months ago she would have fed us to the wolves in a heartbeat, and she would have been right to do so.
“Nothing concrete,” I admitted, begrudgingly. “But this fucker is relentless. He’s been trying to pin something on us for months. He knows if he caught us with Lavender it would be game over for us.”
“I don’t want that,” Lavender admitted with a frown.
“Gage is scaring him off, he had showered so he wasn’t covered in your scent. It’s still private property, Archer owns this land outright so he shouldn’t be here without a warrant.”
“Archer owns this place?” She asked, distracted.
“He made a load of money a few years ago on an app or something computer related and he bought this land and the main house. It was run down at the time and when we decided to make this our base, we spent almost a year renovating to make it liveable.” Theo smiled, likely remembering the days of painting, moving furniture, and knocking down walls.
“So what do we do now?” Lavenderasked. “How do we keep you safe? I’m sorry about the sunroom.” I frowned.
Theo sighed, pulling her in for a hug and kissing her on the forehead. “Don’t apologise, you love it there. This place is supposed to be safe from outsiders.”
He was right. This was our home, our sanctuary. Even if her stay here was only temporary, it was unacceptable that the fragile peace we had built was being threatened.
ChapterTwenty-Eight
Gage
Of all thepeople to turn up at our pack house, Detective fucking Rouche? He hadn’t darkened our doorstep in almost a year—I thought the asshole had finally forgotten about us and decided to chase other stupid, fanciful leads.
Usually we had nothing to hide, but we had learned the hard way that Rouche was the kind of asshole who would get a search warrant for the stupidest things. Only now we had a missing omega living on our property, and if he discovered her…
No. I refused to let that happen.
I rounded the corner, immediately noticing that beat up, piece of shit old car belonging to Detective Rouche who was nowhere in sight.His scent—burnt apple—was everywhere, so I followed my nose. While the car had been on the outskirts , the beta had trespassedontoour property. The thought enraged me. We had been hyper alert when it came to protecting Lavender, and after everything that had happened with Juniper, I would never allow an omega to be taken from me again—even if this omega was just a temporary acquisition.
The panic I felt at someone finding Lavender didn’t feel like the worry over a temporary captive though. My every instinct flared, demanding I hunt down this intruder and tear him apart to keepmyomega safe. I reminded myself that, as much as I wanted her, Lavender was not in fact my omega, no matter how many times we kissed, or how desperately I wanted to taste every inch of her skin.
Judging by the trampled plants it seemed that Rouche had wandered down the treeline, possibly trying to find the back gardens? This place was large, and sprawling. We had built the house with our future in mind. We had even built an omega suite for Juniper one day, before we realised we were pack, and Kane wouldn’t be going anywhere.
Sure enough, Detective Rouche was by one of the back windows, leaning against the glass, cupping his hands around his eyes to get a better chance of looking in.
“What the fuck are you doing on my property?” I growled. Detective Rouche jumped back, taking in the pissed off alpha towering over him. I didn’t care if I scared him, the little shit deserved it, as he’d been a constant terror to my pack when Juniper had been taken. Luckily his… zealous actions had meant that he lost some of his good reputation.
He should have lost his badge.
“I-I have every right to be here!” he insisted. “I thought I heard someone in distress so I came to investigate.”
He looked like crap. His hair was dishevelled, his suit creased and face sweaty. A far cry from the neat detective he had been the last time I’d seen him.
“Bullshit, you’re snooping on my property and I have the camera footage to prove it. You didn’t hear anyone in distress, my pack are the only ones here.”
“I don’t think so,” Rouche said, his hand going to his hip where his gun was holstered.
“I suggest you don’t do that,” I growled. “I have cameraseverywhere.”
“We both know that it’s not just you and your packmates here—you know something about the missing omega who vanished two months ago. Omega’s tend to disappear around you, don’t they?” He said with a grin, the effect slightly dampened by the obvious fear in his eyes.
“I suggest you watch what you say. You have no legal grounds here and you’ve been harassing us ever since Juniper disappeared, I will remove you from these lands myself and press charges against you. You know, It's kind of creepy that you're still this obsessed with Juniper after she rejected you. you know she's not going to fall in your arms even if you find her. How will your superiors react when they learn you’ve been harassing us again?”
“You can’t touch me, I’m an officer!” he gasped.
“I can, legally. You’re on an Alpha’s pack lands, without permission, harassing us. Didn’t you learn that lesson last time? Now if you’re not out of here in the next two minutes I will raise all sorts of hell and physically drag you out of here myself,” I said. “And if I do that, you won’t be well enough to come back for a good long while,” I growled, approaching Detective Rouche, who’d started to back away.
“I’ll leave for now,” he replied. “But I’m not letting this go—I know your pack is mixed up in this andI wouldn’t put it past you to kidnap an omega for your own perverted desires.” He spat, walking past me and back to the boundary of the property. He was eager to escape now that he had been discovered. He had likely thought that none of us were home because our cars were all away in the garages, not out front like they normally were.
