“It happens. It’s only you watching and I’ll be honest—in school you’d think we’d be safer. One way in, one way out."
“I hate that this happened on my watch.”
“Well, it’s happened before and it’ll happen again. You’re doing your best.”
This is my first time being chosen to guard one of the family. So it’s harder to accept that this ‘just happened.’ Waiting forthe fifteen minutes to pass is taking forever. Lorenzo, Apollo, Armando and Celestino join us.
“We’ll take Zachary to the clubhouse. Papà wants to talk to him,” Celestino says to us.
“This is Moira’s last class, so we’ll head home now. Do you think I’ll be allowed to be there when you all talk to him?”
“I don’t see why not. Just make sure that Moira’s not left alone and it’ll be fine.”
Finally, the doors open and students start to come out. I can finally breathe when I see Moira. I see Zachary pushing his way past the other students, and I grab Moira.
“He’s moving fast,” I say to the guys.
“Go. We got him,” Armando says to me, I nod and usher Moira to the car.
“Do you think he really wants to hurt me?” she asks me.
“I don’t know. But you know that you’re safe, right?”
“Oh, I have no doubt.” She nods.
It takes us a little over an hour to get back to the property and I drop Moira off with Callum.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Callum
When Noah drops Moira off, she tells me what happened. I need to be there when they talk to Zachary.
“Are you sure you’re okay staying with Giovanna?” I ask Moira.
“Of course. I wish I could be there too. But I know that they won’t let me because it’s me he’s after.”
“We’re going to find out why,” I say to her as I hold her.
“I hate feeling like I have to watch everywhere I go.”
“I know, but the family will figure it out soon and then we can get back to our normal lives. Well, our new normal.” I laugh. “I’m not sure living in Lake Renegade is ever normal.”
Moira laughs. “It hasn’t been normal for me in a long time.”
“At least we can say that our lives will never be boring.”
I drop Moira off at Giovanna’s house, she lives five minutes away from us. Then I head to the Cimaruta clubhouse. I need to know why this arsehole is coming after my woman. And put a stop to it.
“We waited for you to get here,” Giacomo says to me as I walk in.
“Thank you.” I nod as I follow him downstairs.
Underneath the clubhouse is where they have their ‘interrogation’ rooms. Most of the rooms are reinforced to deal with shifters. They have unbelievable strength and are super fast. At least Zachary’s not a shifter, if he was, we’d know by now.
We walk into one of the rooms and I see Zachary sitting at the table. And he looks a little nervous. I know he used to work with most of the guys here. But working with them and seeing them in this kind of setting is completely different. Not one of them is smiling and they’re all standing with their arms crossed. Even I would be worried if I were sitting where he is.
“Why are you stalking Moira?”
