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“I don’t rightly know,” she said quietly. “I wanted you to grow up happy and not feel the need for revenge.”
She stroked my cheek the way she did when I was a child and I leaned into her hand for comfort. I was angry, but she did what she thought was right. Needless to say, she wasn’t right, but…
“Wait, why would I have felt the need for revenge?” I asked. Something was missing.
“The Council was never able to find out who did it, and after a while they gave up.”
Everything about that statement was so wrong I didn’t know how to react. They gave up? What the hell was that? The Council never gave up. I was trained to get to the bottom of everything. Always.
“That’s the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard. The Council always gets their answers.”
Granny shrugged her thin shoulders and rearranged the knickknacks on her coffee table. Wait. Did the Council know more about me than I did? Did my boss Angela know more of my history than I’d ever known?
“I knew that recruiter they sent down here,” Granny muttered. “I told him to stay away from you. Told him the Council already took my daughter and son-in-law and they couldn’t have you.”
“He didn’t pay me any more attention than he did anyone else,” I told her.
“What did the flyer say that he gave you?”
“Same as everybody’s—salary, training, benefits, car, apartment.”
“Damn it to hell,” she shouted. “No one else’s flyer said that. I confiscated them all after the bastard left. I couldn’t get to yours cause you were shacking up with the sheriff.”
“You lived with Hank the Hooker?” Dwayne gasped. “I thought you just dated a little.”
“Hell to the no,” Granny corrected Dwayne. “She was engaged. Left the alpha of the Georgia Pack high and dry.”
“Enough,” I snapped. “Ancient history. I’m more concerned about what kind of cow patty I’ve stepped in with the Council. Thesheriffknows why I left. Maybe the Council accepted me cause I can shoot stuff and I have no fear and they have to hire a certain quota of women and…”
“And they want to make sure you don’t dig into the past,” Dwayne added unhelpfully.
“You’re a smart bloodsucker,” Granny chimed in.
“Thank you.”
“You think the Council had something to do with it,” I said. This screwed with my chi almost as much as the Hank situation from a year ago. I had finally done something on my own and it might turn out I hadn’t earned any of it.
“I’m not sayin’ nothing like that,” Granny admonished harshly. “And neither should you. You could get killed.”
She was partially correct, but I was the one they sent to kill people who broke Council laws. However, speaking against the Council wasn’t breaking the law. The living room had grown too small for my need to move and I prowled the rest of the house with Granny and Dwayne on my heels. I stopped short and gaped at my empty bedroom.
“Where in the hell is my furniture?”
“You moved all your stuff to Hank’s and he won’t give it back,” Granny informed me.
An intense thrill shot through my body, but I tamped it down immediately. I was done with him and he was surely done with me. No one humiliated an alpha and got a second chance. Besides, I didn’t want one… Dwayne’s snicker earned him a glare that made him hide behind Granny in fear.
“Did you even try to get my stuff back?” I demanded.
“Of course I did,” she huffed. “That was your mamma’s set from when she was a child. I expected you’d use it for your own daughter someday.”
My mamma…My beautiful mamma who’d been murdered along with my daddy. The possibility that the Council had been involved was gnawing at my insides in a bad way.
“I have to compartmentalize this for a minute or at least a couple of weeks,” I said as I stood in the middle of my empty bedroom. “I have to do what I was sent here for. But when I’m done, I’ll get answers and vengeance.”
“Does that mean no vacation?” Dwayne asked.
I stared at Dwayne like he’d grown three heads. He was getting terribly good at rendering me mute.
