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“Yep. Who was that? Are they gone? Why didn’t our security kick in?”
“Rouche again, he’s getting stubborn. As for the security I don’t know what happened but we better figure it out.”
“He didn’t get wind that Lavender was here, did he?”
“I don’t think so.”
“What was his excuse for being here?”
“Noise complaint, total bullshit excuse,” Kane growled. “He came in like a goddamned alpha and wanted to enter our home. We said no, of course.” Kane said as he wandered over to the side of the nest, eyeing Lavender intently, checking to see if she was okay. I guessed his alpha was also riding him hard about her safety, but he didn’t want to admit it.
“So you didn’t let him in?” Theo asked, his hand running through Lavender’s hair as he spoke.
“Yep. She’s safe, he doesn’t know Lavender’s here.” I sighed, sitting on the edge of the bed, looking around at my pack. “I say we put some fences up around the property. Big ones. We’ve had too many unwanted visitors on our land in the last few days and I don’t like it. This place was always meant to be remote and almost unreachable.”
“To be fair, until this week I don’t think we had a single guest here that we didn’t invite,” Theo muttered.
“No, something seems to have lit a fire under his ass, and I want to know what it is,” I said.
“I’m safe, aren’t I?” a small voice asked. Lavender, opened her eyes and was looking intently at me over Theo’s chest. He pulled her tighter into him, almost crushing her with the intensity of his hug.
“We will keep you safe,” I vowed.
ChapterThirty-Six
Lavender
Kane and Gage were outside doing something with the security system. I knew why they needed to do it, Detective Rouche was like a dark storm cloud that was hovering over the pack house. I was sticking indoors, keeping the curtains closed and avoiding anything that could make me more visible.
So I couldn’t go outside and annoy Kane and Gage, because I needed to stay inside, but I was still craving attention. My heat was approaching fast. Maybe a day away at most. Theo wasn’t in his room, and frankly I knew that if I went and pestered him it would probably end up in more mind blowing sex, and my poor bits could use a break.
So I stomped down the hallway, not even bothering to knock as I made my way into the room. I knew who I wanted to see—I had important things to hash out before I became completely mind messy from heat.
“Hey Lavvy girl, you’re stinking up the place,” Archer smirked over the screen of his laptop. Sat at his desk with his feet resting on the surface, and laptop in his lap he looked like the epitome of laid back. He wore a slightly thicker set of glasses today—they had lenses to help with screen glare. He had told me about them during our calls.
“I know, this stupid preheat is driving me insane!” I snarled, throwing myself down onto Archer’s bed. “I never used to have preheats like this,” I whined. “It’s from being around all you idiots,” I grumbled with no real anger in my voice. “My body has never been around alphas, and now my body is freaking out over all the dick in my general vicinity.”
Chucking, Archer stood up, placing his laptop on the desk. He strode over to the bed and crawled in next to me.
“Someone a little grumpy?” he asked.
“Yep,” I said, popping the P.
“Come here.” Archer gently guided me into his arms, my head resting on his chest. The sweet, gummy brown sugar smell that coated the room increased tenfold when I moved closer to him.
“Of all the candies for me to become obsessed with, goddamned gummy bears,” I chuckled weakly.
“My scent is irresistible, I know it,” Archer said in a smug tone.
“You sure about that?” I asked.
“Well, you hurling bags of gummy bears at my head did give me pause, but look, you came around!”
I weakly slapped Archer's chest next to my head. Archer’s only response was to laugh.
We laid there for a moment, enjoying just being there. Despite the turbulent nature of my body I felt calm curled up against Archer, his arm around me.
“Are you happy with… ugh,” Archer stumbled over his words. “What you and… uh… Theo and—”
