Chapter <b>175 </b>


    After all, wasn’t all of this really my fault?


    The driver had been from my pack, which meant that he was likely after Amber to hurt me.


    I might have saved her life in the end, but she had only been in danger because of me, because of my love


    for her.


    How was I to forgive myself for that?


    An hour passed while I held Amber mulling over my regrets and trying to decide what I should do next.


    What could I do, to earn Amber’s trust again?


    After an hour, my new phone started to gently ring from my bed. Besides Amber, only one person had


    that number.


    My Beta.


    Maybe he had some answers atst.


    Eager for the truth, I slowly and carefully eased a sleeping Amber out of my arms, turning her so that she


    was cuddling a pillow instead. Then, grabbing the phone, I walked through the living room and out of the


    room itself.


    The hotel rooms opened to the outside. In this outdoor hallway, knowing no one else was staying at this


    hotel, I feltfortable answering the phone.


    “Alpha,” my Beta said. “We have more information regarding that individual you asked us to look into.”


    “I’m ready to hear it,” I said. “What have you learned?”


    “For the past several years, the man has been working as a chauffeur,” Beta said. “Olivia’s chauffeur.”


    I gripped the phone tighter. It started to creak in my hand.


    “Is it possible she could have arranged what happened?” I asked, but I already had my own growing


    suspicions.


    Beta didn’t speak to that. Instead, he said, “There’s something else. Digging further into his past shows


    that he was once an airline mechanic.”


    Everything around me froze. <i>Or </i>maybe it was just that I couldn’t focus on anything but the voiceing through the phone. “Which airline.”


    The Beta told me, and I recognized it at once as the same airline Amber had used when she fled my pack – fled me – six years before. The ne that had mechanical failure and crashed, killing everyone but Amber and nearly killing her as well.


    “Was he working that day?” I asked, trusting that I didn’t need <i>to </i>exin.


    “Yes,” Beta said. “In fact, he left early, after Amber’s ne took off. He resigned during the investigation. That was when Olivia took him in. There’s evidence to show that she was protecting him. Money transfers, paperwork going missing, investigations that abruptly ended… That sort of thing.”


    “You are telling me, that Olivia not only had her fingerprints all over this recent abduction, but in that ne crash as well?” I said. Saying it allowed, even with evidence, still felt so surreal. 1


    But then, this was the same woman who had tried to get Chase to hurt Alice, a young girl. Knowing that,


    was there anything she wasn’t capable of?


    “We are stillpiling evidence, Alpha, but everything so far does seem to point that way.’


    “We have to find Olivia,” I said. “Call in every favor I’m owed. Reach out to other packs. I don’t care what


    needs to be done, but she cannot be allowed to continue like this.”


    “Yes, Alpha.”


    No sooner did I end the call than the door behind me opened and Amber appeared. Seeing the phone in my hand, she stepped forward, closing the door behind her.


    “What’s going on?” she asked.


    “We have to go back to my pack,” I said firmly. “For your own protection, Amber. I have to keep you somewhere safe until we can stop this danger that’s hounding you.”


    Her expression went very t as she responded, “No.”