He shook his head. “I can’t.” He looked into my eyes. “She needs the elixir to survive.”
“Not if we give her the cure.”
He shook his head again. “Vince will know.”
I smiled. “Not if we move at the same time.”
Rick looked at me. “What do you mean?”
“I mean, we coordinate our attacks. I need to snoop around the pack, but when I’m ready, we will dig into the mainframe, getting everything we need, and you, your wife, and your kid disappear.”
“How is that even possible?” Rick leaned in. But then his eyes landed on Alannah. “I can’t.”
“Why?”
“Because if he disappears, then Vince will kill me.” Alannah swallowed loudly.
I turned to her. “How sure are you?”
Ternen, Alannah and Rick all looked at each other. “Very.” Rick answered me. “I took Alannah under my wing when I got here. She was a young, unmated Omega who was being sniffed around by all the ranked wolves here. I introduced her to Ternen, and they just happened to be mates. That pulled her off the market. But despite that, they would target her, push her around. I stood up for her.”
“He became a stand-in dad to me. And everyone in the pack knows it.” She looked at Rick with love in her eyes. “But it’s okay. I would rather die than watch your little girl suffer anymore. Not if I can help it.”
“No one will be dying…you will all just disappear.”
Chapter Thirty-Six
Everyone froze. Rick recovered first. “How is that even possible?”
“I won’t tell you beforehand, but I promise I will use it to whisk all of you away at the same time, and no one will know where you disappeared to. I can promise once everything is out in the open, and war is on the horizon, you will have a house, jobs, and a place in a pack that celebrates people. No matter their rank.” I looked at Rick.
“You’ll move us to your father’s pack?”
I nodded. “I will.”
“But Vince won’t release us.” Ternen shook his head. “Vince won’t ever let us go.”
I grinned. “It won’t matter. By the time he notices you are all gone, it will be too late.” I could see Alannah perk up.
“Are you being serious, Amy?” She turned to me with hope in her eyes. “If you’re not, I need you to tell me now.”
I wrapped my arm around her. “Of course I’m being serious. Why are you so-” My hand rested against her side, and I felt it. A tiny flutter under the skin. I gasped as she turned to me. “You’re pregnant.”
Alannah’s eyes grew wide. “How did you know?”
Ternen jolted next to us. “Wait, what?”
I grimaced and faced Alannah. “I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to ruin the surprise.”
“Not a surprise, more full-blown terror.” She whispered as she trembled next to me.
Ternen cuddled her. “Why didn’t you tell me?”
She looked at him but it was Rick that answered. “You know why. She’s not allowed to be pregnant.”
I pushed back and stared at him. “What are you talking about?” Rick pulled his phone out and pulled up a screen shot. He turned his phone to me and I gasped. “You have got to be fucking kidding me.” I looked from the phone to him. “Is this actually real?”
Alannah glanced at the phone and started to cry. “Yes.”
