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“Leave Molly with your mom, James. She’s been wanting to babysit,” I called out.
“Yes, Luna.”
It took us three hours to get everything ready. The plane was fueled and ready to take off for when we arrived at the airport. Rental SUVs would be waiting for us in California.
It took us the longest to decide who to take with us. We needed more information to know what we were walking into, and we wouldn’t have that until we had a location.
Ultimately, we made two teams and paid a ridiculous amount of money to charter a second plane and have it ready for us to leave in such short notice. We hoped only one team was necessary, but we weren’t taking chances that we were underprepared when our children’s lives were in jeopardy.
The first team was leaving with us, and it was all seasoned older generation mixed with the new. Both sets of current and previous ranked members, outside of Maya and Camila, who had no battle experience. We also grabbed Gabriel, Brenda, their son Christopher and Zack. I gave them the option to stay; their duties as my guards were over, but they’d watched the children grow up and wanted to help.
Along with them, we were also taking Adrien and Elias, Evergreen in case we needed his expertise and Valeria, who fought not to be left behind. She was a doctor and could help, and she wouldn’t sit around while Evie was potentially injured, no matter how many times we insisted Nat would heal her.
We added another ten of Cory’s best fighters to our group, but it was a volunteer position. We had no experience training them or fighting with us outside Helios, Lalo and Sebastian, who led most of the missions to find his siblings.
The second team was made up of the younger generation. Half consisted of Blue Moon pack members, whom David and Rhett would lead. The other half was a mix of Guardian and Crescent Moon. Lalo allowed Miguel to join, but we were adamant about the rest of our children staying put. They were all targets for Tezcatlipoca, and I wasn’t willing to rescue one to lose another. Miguel had spent the last seven years training heavily in every combat style, his hybrid blood allowing him a few perks that made it safer to allow him to run into danger.
Alexander and Markus had a big fight. Alexander demanded to go, but Markus refused, and I agreed with my mate. I understood these were his grandchildren, but Alexander hadn’t fought in a long time, and Tezcatlipoca had weapons and magic at their disposal. Ultimately, Alexander agreed to stay and ensure both packs remained protected from a possible counter-attack, but there was a moment where I wondered if their fight might come to blows.
We left for the almost two-hour drive to the airport an hour before Paolo was estimated to arrive in San Diego. James left Zi and Molly in the care of his mom and Camila, picking up the Blue Moon party on the way.
We had an address by the time we reached the airport, and Zi called Evergreen shortly after we were in the air.
“Mr. Roswell, you should have a set of blueprints in your inbox—”
“Just Evergreen, Ziomara,” Evergreen answered and got a puff of exasperated air back from Zi as a response.
“I’m pretty much compartmentalizing like a pro here instead of freaking out that my best friend and her mate were kidnapped by the same people that took Violet and Tori; that my own mate is on his way to fight to get them back and that almost the entirety of the people my child and I have begun to think of as family are with him. I don’t have the brain cells to convince my mouth to call you Evergreen, sir,” Zi explained in a very recognizable mom voice.
“Understood, ma’am. What am I looking at?” Evergreen asked, his face burning with embarrassment when most of us started snickering at how he was being scolded by someone half his age.
“Sorry. I’m sorry. I’m just trying not to freak out here,” Zi mentioned. We heard her taking a deep breath, and then she continued, “The address is an old, abandoned warehouse scheduled to be demolished almost thirty years ago but was bought by a private corporation days before it could be blown to pieces. I found permits filed for a parking lot by a hired construction company, but if changes were ever made, the new blueprints were not submitted to the records office.”
“So, we don’t know what has been done? We don’t have any current blueprint?” Markus sighed.
“No, Alpha, but not everything is lost. I’ve got a couple of old clients based in California. One has a remote office about twenty minutes outside San Diego. I’ve already called him, and he’s agreed to send one of his men with a ground-penetrating radar machine and take pictures for us. We should have a better look at what is waiting for you by the time you land.”
“Is he aware of the potential danger to his employee and the need to not be seen?” Evergreen asked.
“He’s aware.”
“And he still agreed?” Markus asked. The skepticism in his voice was reflected in everyone’s face.
“He did,” Zi’s voice was cagey at best, and everyone picked up on it.
“In exchange for what, Zi?” James was the one to ask what we were all wondering.
“A favor,” she answered vaguely.
“What kind of favor?” Helios asked.
“Does it matter? It’s for Evie,” her exasperation was not fooling anyone.
“I know that, but of course it matters what you agreed to do for this man,” James argued.
“James, we can talk about it after,” Zi answered.
“No. Tell me now. What the hell did you agree to do for the man that you can’t tell us?” There was silence from the other line before Zi let out a huff of frustrated air.
