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Why Sloane left her alive when it would have been cheaper—and less risky to his reputation—to kill her is something we’ll never know.
I’d go demand an answer from him if I wasn’t positive I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from gutting him.
While we headed to the clinic, Hali, Nancy, and Devin were finishing up getting everything ready for Everleigh in her new house.
Soon, probably later today, she’ll find everything we left for her. We all hope this isn’t permanent. That one day—hopefully soon—Everleigh will want to come back to us. But we want her to have everything she could ever need or want. More than that, we need her to be happy. Even if she can’t be with us.
“Yeah,” I finally say. “Then why does it still fucking hurt?”
“She’s ours,” Rune says quietly, making the turning away from Everleigh’s new home. “She knows it, wants to stay with us, but her mom needs her more. That’s why it hurts. We could have her with us right now. Probably forever, and she’s not here.”
That hug she’d given me—givenus—had nearly killed me. Her body had been trembling as she squeezed me tight. Like she hadn’t wanted to let go. But she had. For her mom.
We fall silent. I’m thinking about how empty the house is going to be without Everleigh in it. I imagine Rune and Cian are too.
As Rune pulls into the main road that’ll take us back into the city, a navy sedan with tinted windows turns into the road we’re pulling out of.
Rune flashes his lights at the car, and the driver flashes us back.
As much as we want to stay and watch Everleigh, Lawrence Wentworth and the Asylum members are still out there. While they’re still breathing, Everleigh isn’t safe.
No omega who uses the free clinics is safe.
Until we’ve dealt with a situation that’s been going on far longer than it should already, we have someone watching over Everleigh for us.
“You have any hope Sloane will keep away from Everleigh and her mom?” Rune asks.
After we had to body block him in the clinic? And after he only walked away when I threatened to snap his neck? Doubtful. Since I refuse to let that man cause Everleigh and Olive any more problems than he’s caused them already, there’s only one solution to dealing with him.
A permanent one.
“Nope. I foresee myself paying him a visit before too long,” I say. “Can you believe he actually had the balls to say he loved her?”
Someone at the clinic must have called him to tell him we were there, potentially causing him problems. As their biggest donor with a fucking wing named after him, of course they would have. We should’ve known and prepared for it.
“I think in his eyes he saw himself as saving Everleigh. Maybe he thought she’d appreciate all he did for her,” Cian says.
I twist around in my seat and lance him with a stare. “Appreciate all he did for her?”
Cian glances up from his cell phone. “I didn’t sayIappreciated it. Just that he thought she would. From what I found out about him, his father was a bully. He couldn’t stop his dad from bullying him into joining the club, and he was too weak to protect Everleigh like he should have.”
“Well, if he tracks down Everleigh today, he’s going to learn a very painful lesson.” Rune’s voice is dry.
I snort a laugh. “Almost makes me wish he would. And that I could be around to see it.”
Pack Lucas, the best security firm in the city—probably even the country—is watching Everleigh and her mom. This isn’t the only piece of work we’ve hired them to do, in the past, or recently, but it’s the most important. They’re guarding a treasure here. They’re guarding our heart.
Pack Lucas is loyal. They cannot be bought, no one can convince them to step aside, and they are under strict orders to put down anyone who tries to get inside that gray house.
Permanently.
They’d initially refused to take us on as clients when we reached out to them years ago. We’d had a new client we needed guarding due to some bad blood with an old partner.
Over the years, we’ve become friends, and we learned why they avoided working with wealthy alphas. Turns out they’re not the best at paying their dues, and the problems they expect others to clean up are usually of their own making. So Pack Lucas stopped dealing with them years ago.
Like us, they built their business from the ground up. When we told them about omega trading in the city and about Resa, the pregnant omega we were forced to leave behind, they told us they would work for free.
My eyes return to the rearview mirror. The driver of the navy sedan with the tinted windows will have parked down the road from Everleigh’s house by now. I wish it were me, but I have a job to do and only I can do it.
