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“No. It was through a different client. I did give her all the names I knew ahead of time, but there were more people at the restaurant than expected.” Which, looking back, was kind of suspicious.
“Hmm.” He looks at the night sky. “The Hearts are up to something. We’ve found connections with the Hearts through the pack Vera was supposed to marry into. And now there are Hearts at your ‘friendly’ networking dinner. In both cases, it wasn’t revealed until later.”
He pulls up a shoulder. “And both cases ended in death, but I’m not sure that’s relevant here.”
Honey pheromones surround us as quiet footsteps reach the door. When I look up, Vera sticks her head around the door, her face red, her pheromones drenched in orgasmic bliss. She’s wearing a thin night dress that makes my mouth water with how it hugs her curves.
She looks at us both and her blissful pheromones ease as she steps outside, looking more serious. “I’m tired of waiting. I’m tired of being scared. I’ve been running for way too long. I want to fight back, take the fight to them.” Her jaw is set, her eyes dark.
“It’s not that—” Caleb starts, keeping his pheromones calm, but she glares at him.
“Iknowit’s not easy.Nothingis ever easy. But we have to try. I don’t want to wait for them to make another move. We’ve been waiting and running for years. I’mfuckingtired of it.” Her voice hitches for a moment. “I’ve finally got a pack. We’ve finally started a family. I don’t want to be scared anymore that it could be taken from me.”
I take a deep breath, trying to calm the emotions that her words and pheromones are stirring up in me. “Taking down an organisation as large as the Hearts isn’t going to be easy. It’s much too big for a small pack like us.”
“We don’t have to start at the top.” She seems much more focused now. “We start at the brothel that used to hold Mathew. They’re probably the ones who are threatening him anyway.”
I glance at Caleb. If he’s aware what Erika’s organisation does, he knows how dangerous of a task that is, how big of a task that’s going to be.
It takes Erika months or years of work and hundreds of people to take down one brothel or other location and deal with the aftermath of it. How are we supposed to manage that with just a handful of people?
Vera’s pheromones change, taking on a spicy edge. “Theythreatenedus. TheyhurtJorge and the others. We have to get rid of the Hearts.”
I’m surprised by the way she’s changing, how this soft and sweet Omega turns murderous when people she loves are in danger. I’ve seen this change in her before, earlier this evening, but that was in very tense situations, this time, she does it without being provoked.
This isn’t just something she does when there’s danger, this is who she is, this is a side of her that’s always there, and that’s attractive and a little scary at the same time.
The scary part is mostly that I know that if she points, Iwillkill for her, without a doubt.
She’s my Omega, I’ll do anything for her.
That includesmurder…