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“Let him call us,” I said. “I think he will.”
“What are you going to do if he does?” Ebony asked curiously as we stepped back out into the grimy street.
I shrugged. “Make sure he’s safe.”
There were dozens of ways to deal with heat if you had money. Private heat clinics always had spots.
“I don’t get it,” Rook was saying. “Gold pack is for life, why not just get the injection and never go back?”
I turned to him with a frown. “Never go back?” I asked. “You can only live where you can afford. Most people who grow up on that side of town don’t think they’re ever getting out.”
That had been me.
That was why I’d worked so fucking hard—harder than Rook ever had to work. Not just for me, I’d wanted my whole family out.
We hadn’t even made it to the car when my phone buzzed. I was relieved to see a text pop up on the screen.
Unknown number: Tell me when she’s safe, yeh?
Me: I’ll do that. Thanks for the info.
Me: Reach out if you need to.
I held my phone up to Rook. “He’ll call.”
“Send me his number,” Ebony told me from the driver’s seat ahead.
“Don’t scare him off,” I muttered, sending it over and adding Gambit’s name to my contacts.
“Do you think we found anything that’s going to help us get her back?” Rook asked, gaze fixed on Ebony. I felt a wary flutter of hope in my chest. Ebony was the one who seemed to have a dozen plans while the rest of us were at the mercy of Leighton’s updates and the damn phone Vex had left behind. But he’d been cagey about them. Still, he’d been set on visiting where Vex had lived.
Ebony opened his mouth as if he were going to snap back at Rook, but then noticed my desperation. He sighed, clenching his jaw. “Nothing I’m doing is likely to get us results in the short term.”
I swallowed. “So our best bet’s still…?”
There was a hateful look on his face, but he nodded. “We still need them to ask for a trade.”
“What he said about gold packs and dark bonds,” Love said. “It’s not like… it’s not so simple, is it?”
It wasn’t unheard of, gold packs killing their alphas, or rogues killing their bonded omegas, but it wasn’t common.
“He’s right that it’s possible, but the dark bond makes it a thousand times more difficult,” Ebony replied. “Vex would be fighting the dark bond as well as her own instincts as a bonded omega. It’s not justhard,it’s all but impossible. You have to be more than just desperate or afraid. The drive it takes isn’t something that can be planned for.”
“But… if she did?” Love asked.
Ebony’s eyes darkened. “Then she’d be at the mercy of the rest of the pack before we could get to her.”
VEX
Drake?
Hearing my mate's name on Triton’s lips was the final confirmation of what I’d been afraid of since the moment I’d seen Zeus’s face. Fury hit me like a strike of lightning. Instinct smothered everything, the world, the commands.
My Drake. The one who’d loved me, despite how broken he was. Despite his pain and monsters.
Monsters I was facing right now.
The glass of water in my hand shattered as I smashed it on the bedside table.
