102
Another week went by and Lucas called me every day to find out what progress we’d made. I knew that he was secretly having Timothy do everything that Tank was doing so I had Tank keep an eye on Timothy too.
“Little Ryder!” Tank yelled from the dining room and I jumped from my seat behind my desk and literally ran to the dining room.
“What did you find?” I asked him as his eyes glistened with happiness.
“The house in Broadview has a lot of activity, I think I’ve found the person named Carlson Hall and then also the points of interest that Wentworth supplied have paid off, I’ve been tracking these four men and their vehicles and three more children have been abducted in the last twenty-four hours and we have them on a satellite view, we know where they are keeping the children!” he said excitedly.
“Okay keep tabs on Carlson in Broadview, the children are our first priority,” I said and they all nodded.
“We should make our preparations and plan to attack the stronghold just before dawn,” Elio said.
“We have enough poison,” Link said and stood up to go to the basement to retrieve it.
“We all know what to do and how we do it, keep the leaders alive for interrogation, kill the soldiers and free the children,” I said.
We all went our separate ways when Link returned with the various bottles of venom and poison and I went back to my room to retrieve my bow and arrow and knives. Link would lace all our bullets with the special mixture that would incapacitate any species.
We spent the rest of the morning checking our weapons and studying the aerial shots that Tank printed out for us. He had identified the building most likely where the children would be kept and we checked the advantages of the surrounding trees and from where we could enter the area.
“Just off of Highway 52 before we reach Fowler, we’ll take the turn off for N200W, there’s a dumping site nearby and we’ll leave our cars there, at that time of the night we can cross the highway back to the other side to reach the estate, there won’t be that many cars or trucks. It’s pretty quiet and deserted out there so silencers for everyone because noise travels further at night, we’ll come in from the sides, take out any guards and kill whoever tries to stop us,” I said as we finished up.
“What time do you want to leave?” Tank asked me.
“Midnight,” I said.
I went to the kitchen and arranged for dinner to be ready at five pm so we could all rest before we had to leave. It was a three hour drive to Fowler and then we’d strike soon after in the dead of night. I couldn’t fly in on Abeloth’s back because of the density of the trees all around the place and there wasn’t really anywhere for him to land so we’d go in on foot.
-How are things going there?- Ryder
-Better than I thought- Cameron
I smiled as I put my phone away and headed upstairs. I replaced the jeans with sweat pants and lay down on the bed and switched the television on. I wasn’t planning on sleeping but just clearing my mind and relaxing until Megan got home which should be in another hour or so. I hated these school meetings that they held on a Saturday.
I heard Megan come home and lowered the sound on the television just as she opened the bedroom door and put her handbag down on the dresser by the door. She stood watching me and then she sat down on the bed facing me.
“Are you feeling sick?” she asked me.
“No,” I said as I shifted into a sitting position.
“Why are you laying on the bed like an old man?” she asked me with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
“If I’m sick will you look after me?” I asked her.
“You haven’t been sick in the fifteen years I’ve known you, so you can look after yourself,” she said with a smile on her lips.
“You’ll be saying that even when I’m on my deathbed,” I said to her and folded my arms.
“No I won’t!” she said vehemently, “on your deathbed I’ll ask where your will is.”
She was laughing as she jumped out of my reach and I stood on my knees on the bed watching her, “you’re a mean one,” I said to her as she kept on laughing.
“Okay but seriously why are you on the bed?” she asked.
“We leave at midnight, so now it’s down time, just relaxing before I sleep later,” I said and she sat down on the bed again.
“Which assignment?” she asked.
“Actually we found answers to both of them, but we’re going after the children first,” I said and she nodded her head.
“Those poor babies,” she said as she moved closer and leaned against me.
“Tomorrow we’ll rip apart that whole operation,” I said as I stroked her hair.
“What does it feel like?” she asked me.
“Killing?” I asked her.
“Yes and doing what you do,” she said and I thought about that for a moment.
“It’s hard to explain, my human side tries to block it out and Abeloth relishes it. He looks forward to the slaying, so it’s an internal struggle when I think about what I have to do right now. But when I put on that combat uniform something in my mind changes. I go into hunter mode, the way I’ve been trained to do and I just do what I have to do to save the innocent and kill the guilty, in that moment I don’t feel empathy and I’m not disgusted by killing and mostly afterwards it doesn’t bother me, it’s the dreams that bothers me,” I said.
In my moment of emotional weakness as I thought of the victims I’ve come across Abeloth pushed through and took control of my body, I was too late to block him. He’d been wanting to talk to Megan for a while now but knowing Abeloth I wasn’t very keen.
“Hello Abeloth,” Megan said as she stared intently at his yellow eyes.
“Hello woman,” Abeloth said as he stared right back at her. He had pushed me to the furthest corner of my mind and I could only watch the interaction between them. I hoped Abeloth wouldn’t be his usual asshole self.
“I was beginning to think you were never going to talk to me,” she said as she moved into a more comfortable position.
“Ryder’s been keeping a tight grip on me in your presence,” he said.
“Why?” she asked him.
“I’m a bit of an asshole,” he said and she laughed suddenly.
“So is he,” she said and Abeloth chuckled.
“I like you woman, you speak your mind and you don’t care much for formalities and protocol, you make my halfling squirm with frustration and it’s been fun to watch,” he said as I shook my head. The idiot was going to tell her things I never would and I yelled at him in my mind to stop playing around.
“What protocols?” she asked him with a slight frown.
“A woman must be submissive to her Sire and bonded half, follow his lead and be there by his side, show her support in the running of the lair,” he said and I facepalmed myself.
“I support him and I’m by his side, being submissive though…” she said.
“Ryder likes your spunk, he doesn’t want you to change,” Abeloth said.
“But you do?” she asked.
“No, Ryder and I are always on the same side, I want what he wants,” he said.
“And what does Ryder want?” she asked and I saw that grin on Abeloth’s face and I lowered my head into my hands.
“More sex obviously,” he said as Megan burst out laughing.
“I like you Abeloth,” she said with a smile.
“Of course you do, I’m the hottest thing there is,” he said smugly.
“Tell me Abeloth, if I asked you something would you tell me the absolute truth about Ryder?” she asked him.
“Yes I would, you are our mate, hurting you goes against everything I believe in, hence lying is something I could never do, the same goes for my halfling, I can feel your emotions better than he does and I know that you struggle to accept his past,” he said and I stopped pacing as I listened in.
“Did Ryder have feelings for me before or after you told him that we were bonded halves?” she asked him.
“He was in love with you before I told him,” he confirmed.
“Thank you Abeloth,” she said and I couldn’t quite make out the emotion in her eyes, maybe relief, but I couldn’t be sure.
“To your other question the answer is also yes,” he mused as I started fighting him for control again.
“What question is that?” she asked him.
“He wants to mark you and he wants to marry you,” Abeloth said as I pushed through and my eyes returned to their normal green.
“Don’t be mad,” she said to me.
“I’m not mad just a little taken aback that you didn’t believe me,” I said to her.
“I’m sorry, sometimes it just feels unreal, that you’d choose me, I’m nobody special,” she said softly.
“You are everything to me, I can’t wait to announce our bonding to every lair out there,” I said.
“Will you tell me how and why you got that piercing?” she asked me.
“Why didn’t you ask Abeloth that?” I asked as I looked at her blush.
“I prefer your answer,” she said.
“I lost a bet to Felix,” I said to her.
“Did it hurt?” she asked me.
“What the fuck do you think?” I asked her as she laughed.
“So why didn’t you just say no?” she asked and this time I laughed.
“It was either that or Felix’s name tattooed on my butt,” I said.
“Did he ever lose a bet to you?” she asked.
“Only once, Felix never made a bet he couldn’t win,” I said to her.
“Did you make him get one too?” she asked.
“No, he wore my name on his butt,” I said as she laughed again.
“I wish I could’ve met him,” she said.
“You would’ve liked him a lot,” I said.
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