It’s been a month since we burned Jax and Chris and I’d basically forgotten JD’s statement about the missing women and the auctions. I was preoccupied with business dealings and I had taken the time to mourn them properly which meant that I had yet to meet with Marcus and Jasper.I was in the dressing room putting on my tie when Rylee made an appearance in the doorway and looked me up and down. I had hardly seen her today and she was dressed to go out.“Where are you off to?” she asked me.“The Drake, I have to meet with Marcus and Jasper. Are you joining me?” I asked her.“Hannah invited me to go out with her, so I guess I’ll see you there,” she said with a smile.“You’d rather go with Hannah than me?” I asked her as I turned to face her.“Well since you’re asking so nicely,” she said and started playing with my tie.“We can all go as a group, Rev needs to sit in on the meeting as well,” I said to her my hand trailing up her arm.“Keep your hands to yourself,” she said as she took a s
Rylee ignored me as we drove home a few hours later and I returned it by ignoring her as well. I wasn’t going to defend myself when I did nothing wrong. Tessa was part of my lair and things between us had ended a long time ago except for a one night stand here and there.“I’m going to bed,” I said as we climbed out of the car.I headed upstairs first and I pulled sweat pants on and climbed into bed. Baz was restless and I groaned loudly as I turned on my back. I felt Rylee as she climbed into bed and turned her back on me. My eyes were half closed when she decided to say something.“You smell like her,” she said and I sighed.“Do you want me to go shower?” I asked her.“No, by all means sleep next to me with her scent all over you,” she said.“Jealousy doesn’t suit you Rylee,” I said as I turned towards her.“And you’ll be fine if I sleep next to you smelling like another man?” she asked me. Baz roared loudly in my head and I had her pinned down beneath me before she could even react.
We spent about three hours at Tessa’s apartment. Nadia had been sitting in the bedroom when we arrived and I could hear Tessa talking softly to her as we waited in the small living room. It looked exactly like I remembered it and Rev looked angry.“Nadia,” I said her name from behind Tessa. She visibly tried to shrink away from me and I could see that this was going to be difficult.“Lucas, just give us a moment,” Tessa said softly.I pushed past Tessa and sat down on the edge of the bed. I looked at Nadia for several minutes and then motioned for Tessa to leave us alone. I took my jacket off and hung it over the chair and sat down on the bed again, this time a bit closer to her.“I’m Lucas Grey and I’m not going to hurt you. I want to help you Nadia and I know Tessa told you about me and that she showed me that video you made. It was a very brave thing to do,” I said softly.“The anger you feel from me is not towards you, it’s towards those animals that are doing these things. I can
Rylee came out of the bathroom smoothing her dress down and pushed past me, not even noticing me as she stumbled past. I could smell the alcohol on her and I grabbed her arm just as the man stumbled out of the bathroom and I lost it.I let go of her and lunged myself at the man, hitting him in the face. He went down and didn’t even put up a fight as I hit him repeatedly. When he was unconscious I was satisfied and stood up and Rylee just stood there looking at me, swaying on her feet.I grabbed her arm and pulled her along, through the throng of people on the dance floor and to the outside where Max stood waiting by his car. I strapped her into the front seat of my car and turned towards Max.“I’ll deal with you tomorrow,” I said and climbed in my car.I drove home and I couldn’t even look at her as she rested her head against the window. She had her eyes closed and I could smell him all over her. I parked the car and I saw that she was in no condition to walk into the house by hersel
Jasper and I spent the rest of the day in my office and Martha brought us lunch. As we ate Hannah and Rev joined us and I knew that Hannah knew what we were busy with. I gave Rev a look but he shook his head and smiled.“Oh please brother, Rev didn’t have to tell me anything, you know I know these things,” she said as I looked at her.“I don’t want you involved,” I said to her.“So tell me smart ass how are you going to save these girls?” she asked me pointedly as Jasper sat back and watched her animatedly.“We’re busy discussing that,” I said to her and she snorted. A very unladylike thing coming from her.“Yeah sure, listen I know a guy, he’s very deep in the underworld of hacking and so forth,” she said and I looked at her.“How the hell do you know someone like that?” I asked her.“Trade secrets brother, anyway, if he’s able to trace the IP addresses of the buyers then you could wait until delivery has been made and hit those locations with a few men and rescue the girls, that way
At nine am I heard the doorbell as I sat in my office and I waited patiently for the vampire to make his appearance. I wasn’t looking forward to meeting him, not because I hate other species but because vampires especially had a terrible reputation.“So do you Lucas,” Baz chimed in my head.“True,” I said as Hannah knocked on my door.“Come in,” I said and she opened the door to reveal a man around my age with pale skin, dark blonde hair and striking blue eyes. He looked quite ordinary dressed in a suit and carrying a laptop bag over his one shoulder.“This is Lucas Grey, my brother, and this is Timothy Black, my friend,” Hannah said putting emphasis on the ‘friend’ part. I stood up and shook his hand firmly, promising myself to give him the benefit of the doubt.“It’s nice to meet you Timothy,” I said and sat back down motioning for him to take a seat as well.“Hannah didn’t tell me much, only that you need IP addresses located,” he said as he sat down.“My sister tells me you can be
I hadn’t spoken to Rylee in three days and I was currently sitting in the living room of the guest house with Nadia and Tina. Nadia had finally agreed to tell me her story and I had put my phone on record which she agreed to.“I lived with my lair in Greenbay, Wisconsin. I was walking home after school when a van stopped at the curb and two men jumped out and grabbed me. They pulled a black hood over my head and tied my hands behind my back. We drove for hours and when the hood was removed I was in a large warehouse and I could hear screaming and crying. There were other girls there, some in cages and some in cells. At first I was taken to a cell and left there for a few days with three other girls. They announced it was inspection time and we were taken out of the cell one by one. I was forced to strip and they had a doctor who checked if I was still a virgin. I was and they seemed pleased by that, another man stormed into the room and he claimed that I was his bonded half. I was tak
We sat in the downstairs meeting room as Timothy watched the website. We were talking softly until the timer went off and Timothy started typing on his laptop as he watched the screen on mine carefully. People had started bidding and the four girls’ fate had been sealed. Within the next two hours they would be sold and shipped to their new owners.“We’ve laced our bullets with nightshade as per Timothy’s advice, it’s lethal when it enters a vampire’s bloodstream. We also have dragon venom and wolfsbane laced bullets for the other species,” I started the meeting as Timothy kept typing.“Yeah we should kill them all,” Jasper mused with a smile.“Does Jasper have a hard on already?” Brandon asked as he walked into the meeting room followed by Nate.“There’s my bitch,” Jasper said as he stood up and shook hands with Brandon.“Thanks for coming guys,” I said as everyone shook hands and exchanged some small talk.“Wouldn’t miss this for the world,” Nate said with an easy smile.“Four girls