I heard the front door open and close and I smiled as I thought to myself that Link didn’t waste time tonight. I looked up as Megan walked past my office with her head down and I looked at my watch again. It was three am.“Megan?” I called out to her.“I’m fine,” she said and I heard her on the stairs.I sat there for a few minutes frowning before I stood up and followed her upstairs. Something was off, why would she say she was fine. I hurried up the stairs and stopped in front of her bedroom and knocked on the door. I could hear the shower and I could hear her crying.I pushed the door open and saw that she had left the bathroom door open. I sensed too many emotions to make sense of them. I walked into the bathroom not worrying that she might be naked my only worry was why she was crying. I opened the door and found her sitting in the corner hugging herself and she lowered her head quickly when she saw me.“What the fuck,” I whispered as I looked at her.She started crying again as

Dinner with the family was actually very nice. We laughed a lot and between me and Chase we were glaring at each other the whole night. We’ve always been that way with each other, but there was also nothing we wouldn’t do for the other one. We had a twisted sort of relationship and my mother kept telling Megan that she could do better than me. She was more pissed off than Lucas had let on but Megan just laughed and held her own between them all very well.We arrived home and Megan went upstairs as she yelled goodnight to me and I went to the kitchen. I probably would have to grovel too, since I told her I would do whatever it took to convince her. Ten minutes later I knocked on her door.“Come in,” she said loudly and I opened the door.“I brought you tea,” I said and froze for a second as she walked out of the bathroom.“Thank you,” she said with a smile and took the cup from me.“What the hell are you wearing?” I asked her staring at her open mouthed.“Pajamas,” she said as she sat

Megan had given me a death stare before leaving for work while I just laughed and Link shook his head as he looked at me. We had a busy day ahead of us and we left not long after Megan did.“What’s going on with you two?” he asked me.“I believe Megan was supposed to be my bonded half, Abeloth agrees so I told her that,” I said to him.“And?” he asked.“And now she’s got me jumping through hoops proving that I can be faithful and shit,” I said as he laughed.“So what’s with the death glare this morning?” he asked me.“I’m just giving her a taste of her own medicine, she’s teasing the shit out of me so I returned the favour this morning,” I said.“The sexual tension between you two is going to lead to you guys banging on the stairs or someplace,” he said as I laughed.“Hopefully sooner rather than later, she’s winning this little game of hers wearing pajamas that covers basically nothing and acting like it’s all normal while I stutter and drool,” I said to him as he laughed again.“You

The bottle of scotch was half as I stood up and put the drill down on the work bench to my left. Blood was seeping from Joe’s body and I looked at my blood stained hands. Nico had left the room when I started on the second kneecap and Basil had left when I started on his ankles.“What did he say?” Basil asked as he walked back into the room and kept his eyes averted from Joe’s body.“Carlson McIntyre Hall,” I said and he looked at me blankly.“I don’t know that name,” he said to me.“I was the target Basil, Felix was an accident,” I said as I sat down on the floor leaning my back against the wall.“I don’t care who the target was, my brother died and even if it was you that had died, Felix would be standing here instead of you,” Basil said angrily.“This is an old family feud, I know the name McIntyre but we thought the family line had ended,” I said to him as I poured water over my hands and washed the blood off.“So now we find this guy and kill him,” Basil said as he looked at Joe’

My office wasn’t big enough for all of us to work simultaneously so we switched to the dining room and spread paperwork everywhere. We were all either on the phone, on a laptop or busy reading through old articles.Tank was a good tracker, hacker, whatever you wanted to call him. He found people for a living when he wasn’t active in our little team. Marlo could find an exact location if she had an idea of where to look. So far we hadn’t found much, not even a picture of this supposed Carlson Hall.Elios was talking to people from all over asking questions about the missing children, since I had also agreed to take that assignment on. We were working double time and when Megan came home from work she’d sit and help us sort through stuff.We’d been at it for three days when Lucas’s frame loomed in the doorway of the dining room and everyone just stared at him as he folded his arms across his chest and gave me a look that I knew all too well. It was his ‘what the fuck are you up to’ look