Chapter Fifteen
“Hey, did your dad get off okay?” Boone asked as he dropped the last of his boxes of possessions on the floor by the door. Packing and moving sucked. Packing and moving into Jackie’s house was a dream come true.
“Yeah. He says it’s going to take him a few weeks to pack up and get the house on the market, but he wants me to start looking around for a place for him here in town.”
Boone could hear the joy in his mate’s voice at the thought of his father moving to Potter’s Creek. Boone was thrilled for Jackie, even if he was still a little wary of the man himself. With James in Jackie’s life, Boone knew he needed to make nice with the older man. It wasn’t so easy when James was wary of shifters in general.
Still, whatever made Jackie happy made Boone happy. If that meant he had to help James Lee move to Potter’s Creek, so be it. Boone would do whatever he needed to do to make his mate happy.
“Have you decided if you’re going to contact your mother or not?” Boone was still a little stunned to learn Jackie’s mother was a shifter.
“No, I don’t think so. I wasn’t good enough for her when I was human. I doubt I’m good enough for her now that I’m a made shifter.”
Boone understood where Jackie was coming from, and personally, he wanted nothing to do with the woman who would abandon her child, but he understood why she had done it. Twenty-five years ago when she left, humans were not accepted in any pride. Jackie’s life would have been in danger for sure.
That didn’t mean Boone agreed with what she did. If it had been his child, nothing would have torn him away, not even a mate. Mostly because he was positive his mate would have understood the need to stay, and would have stayed with him.
“Just don’t close off your options. There might come a point in your life when you’ll want to talk to her.”
“I guess.”
“We can at least ask Elder Hamilton to track her down and find out where she is. You may change your mind at some point.”
Jackie shot him a dark look.
Boone swallowed hard. “Or not.”
When someone knocked on the door, Boone jumped at the chance to answer it. “Oh, hey, Boston, what’s up?”
“I’m getting ready to head back to the Feline Council. I wanted to drop by before I did and let you know that they found Drummond guilty of all charges.”
Boone turned when he felt a hand settle in the middle of his back. He wrapped an arm around Jackie’s shoulders before looking back at Boston. “What’s his sentence?”
“It would have been life imprisonment if he had been human, but since he used his own experimental drugs to make himself a shifter, he faces shifter justice.”
“Which means what?” Jackie asked.
“He’ll be put to death, baby,” Boone replied. “The laws for shifters don’t allow much wiggle room.”
“I can’t say I’m real sad about that,” Jackie said. “The man is evil.”
Boone wholeheartedly agreed.
“What about Klaus Marshall?” Boone needed to know. Klaus might be even more evil than Drummond.
“Since Drummond has been caught and returned for justice, the council is sending me out after Klaus and his older brother. They’re not real sure how deeply involved they were, but they at least want to question both men.”
“What about your time undercover?” Boone asked. “Don’t you have the evidence to take him in?”
“Not enough to do any real damage. The council wants more. They thought this shitstorm ended with Drummond. The council isn’t real happy to discover other shifters were involved. I think they want to make an example of Klaus and Bern.”
“Is there anything we can do to help?”
“Not a lot, but if you hear anything, send the information to Elder Hamilton. He’s my contact on the council. He and Simon are keeping a record of everything I find so we can present it to the council once I bring those two yahoos in.”
“You’ll be careful?”
Boston grinned. “Always.”
