Elias and I went far enough away from the castle so no one could figure out where we were
hiding.
When we arrived at a small town in the middle of nowhere, we stepped into a diner, and the locals all watched us closely.
I guessed they didn’t get many visitors around here, but we sat down in a booth, and soon the
waitress came over.
“Could we get a couple of coffees?” Elias asked.
“Sure thing,” she replied, heading back to the counter.
“I’m not sure how private this conversation will be,” I said, ncing around at the people staring at us.
“I know. We’re just here to listen to him and then leave. We’ve got people watching outside in case this is a trap,” Elias assured me.
“I get it,” I said.
The waitress returned with our coffees, and I noticed her staring at Elias, but when she caught me looking, she quickly looked away and hurried back to the counter.
Elias chuckled quietly, and I turned my re on him.
“I didn’t do anything,” he said.
“Exactly,” I replied.
The diner door opened, and I immediately caught a familiar scent.
I nced over my shoulder as a man entered, nked by tworge men.
The bigger men went to the counter, while the first man came over to us.
“Maddox” Elias greeted.
“Elias, Lyra is good to finally meet you,” Maddox said, and Elias moved aside so Maddox could sit down.
“Ne ce you picked,” Imented, looking around again.
“<b>It’s </b>just a small town,” Maddox replied.
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“Yeah, we noticed,” I said.
“So, are you two ordering food?” Maddox asked.
“This isn’t a social visit,” Elias said firmly.
“Of course not,” Maddox said, then ordered a coffee <i>for </i>himself.
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“You seem to have a real problem with my father, but I’ve never seen you at his pack before,” I
said.
“I’ve never been there. I’m not stupid. People have known about his activities in other packs for a long time,” Maddox exined.
“I hadn’t heard about his activities,” Elias admitted.
“That’s why he called in the Vanguards – to get you on his side instead of making your pack an enemy. He didn’t expect you’d be mated to his daughter, or that you’d find her,” Maddox said.
“What kind of trouble is my father involved in?” I asked.
“A lot of shady business, illegal stuff that humans haven’t caught on to yet, but now they might start paying attention since you went public about his abuse,” Maddox exined. <fnbf7b> Content originallyes from find~novel</fnbf7b>
“So he’s going to get more desperate,” I said, looking at Elias.
“Yeah. He’s desperate and will do whatever it takes to get you back,” Maddox warned.
“I don’t know anything about his illegal dealings,” I said.
“I know. But we also know that he was keeping you hidden for a reason,” Maddox said. I looked at Elias again, who was looking a little panicked. “Don’t worry. No one knows why,”
Maddox said.
“Why do you hate him so much?” I asked.
“Because we all make money in the human world. It’s how we keep our packs going. It’s just normal for us to do that. He’s been stealing my businesses out from under me for years. He’s almost sent me bankrupt several times,” Maddox exined.
“Why?” Elias asked.
To get me out of the way. I own a lot ofnd. And arge pack. He doesn’t want me to be more powerful than him,” Maddox said.
“So, you want to join an alliance with us just so you can say ‘<b>f</b><b>**</b>k you‘ to Thorne?<b>” </b>I asked.
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“Yeah. Pretty much,” Maddox said. Elias looked at me.
I shrugged my shoulders as I looked back.
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“That’s good enough for me. If anyone is going to have a reason then why not that?” I asked.
“Yeah. I guess so,” Elias said.
“How do you expect this alliance to work?” I asked.
“Well, I think that when your father finally catches up to you, then I have a veryrge pack at my disposal that will be there to help. They are well disciplined, well trained and I can even send several of them with you so they can help protect you in the meantime. Because, believe me. He’s looking everywhere for you,<i>” </i>Maddox said.
“He’s not going to find where we are,” I said.
“We don’t need your warriorsing home with us. We’ve got that covered. It’s what we do. But we do appreciate the help if ites down to a final battle with him,” Elias said.
“Absolutely. And I hope that we can keep an open line ofmunication. So if either of us hear anything about Thorne then we will call the other?” Maddox asked.
“I think that’s fair,” I said.
When we got back to the castle we went to the kitchen to get something to eat since it was the middle of the night. We had been traveling for most of the day and I was getting hungry
now.
I still saw my mother lurking around, but I was still ignoring her.
“I’m d you guys are back,” Luke said, walking into the kitchen.
“We were only gone for a day,” Elias said.
“I know. And the phone hasn’t stopped all day,” Luke said.
He ced the phone on the bench and let us listen to the messages from Alpha’s all around the country that had heard of dad or who had met him and they were all wanting to meet with us. For the same reasons. They hated my dad and they wanted to bring him down.
“I don’t believe it. Did you know that so many people hated your dad?” Elias asked.
“I didn’t even know that so many people knew of my dad. I thought he was telling you the truth when you first came to our pack. That he had let his pack go to hell but was ready for it to get back up and running again,” I said.
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“Well, you only saw what he wanted you to see,” Luke said.
“Obviously,” I said.
We decided that we were going to go to bed and we’d call those Alpha’s tomorrow.
When we went upstairs, we had a shower and we got into bed.
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Elias pulled me close to him and put his arm around me so his chest was against my back and I went to sleep pretty quickly.
But when I opened my eyes again, I was standing in a burning room.
I looked around and there were no doors to get out and I reached out and I burnt myself. I looked at my hand where it had turned red and it was really painful. It wasn’t a dream.
Where the f**k was l?
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