Carter pointed to another screen, which showed the ruined cell room in the police department. Two more families waited inside, mates and children. One of the she-wolves was hunched over, but when she straightened I realized with horror that she was pregnant.
“What the fuck is this?” Calder asked, his voice furious and rough.
“He sent me a text message,” Carter replied, lifting his phone. “He’s taking families that helped me. All this time, he’s known and he’s just been watching and waiting for me to make a move so he had a legitimate reason to kill us all.”
“We have to help them,” Chloe said, her eyes intense. Frighteningly so.
My eyes were caught by another camera feed, this one in Darrell’s office at the police department.
I pointed to the screen. “What are they saying? Do you have sound for that room?”
Carter nodded, fiddling with the computer he had set up on the table next to the monitors.
Suddenly Brayden’s voice filled the room.
“Where is she?” he snarled. “She’s my mate and I want her here!”
Brian sat behind Darrell’s desk, looking completely at ease. “We’ll find her, son. Just be patient a bit longer. With what Darrell is doing, I doubt it will be long before she comes to us.”
“She should have been mine already,” Brayden growled, shoving his hands through his hair as he paced back and forth in the office. “If you’d let me take her when I wanted to, none of this would have happened.”
“People would have talked if she mated right after her parents died, Brayden. They would have suspected that you forced her and we would’ve ended up in front of the Tribunal answering uncomfortable questions about forced mating.”
“Then why in the fuck did we hire Darrell to kill them? Huh?” Brayden stopped pacing, some of the madness leaving his face. “This had nothing to do with what I wanted,” he stated with sudden clarity. “It was you. You wanted the pack. You knew you couldn’t take it from Matthew MacArthur, so you had Darrell kill him. Now you’re letting someone else do your dirty work again, hoping Carter and Lachlan will kill Darrell for you.”
The older wolf smiled. “Finally, you’re beginning to think the way an alpha should.”
My fists clenched and I glanced at Chloe. Her face was pale and her eyes burned with fury. Sophia MacArthur was much better at hiding her rage, but I could smell it as it swelled. Her face gave nothing away, but there was no way she could hide the scent.
“We need to get into town right now,” Carter insisted. “I know my father. He’s going to start killing wolves until I show up.” His eyes were haunted as he looked at me. “He’ll start with the weakest.”
The pups, I realized with horror.
“We can’t just go in there with guns blazing,” Sophia argued. “We need a plan.”
Carter’s eyes fired. “Oh, I have a plan. I’m going to kill the motherfucker like I should have years ago.”
“She’s right,” Chloe stated. “We need a plan.” When Carter looked as though he were about to argue, she lifted a hand. “But we’ll decide quickly. We have the advantage of strength and numbers. Darrell and his deputies aren’t as strong as any of us. Brian Kirkpatrick is just as likely to stand back and watch Darrell die as he is to fight.” Her jaw hardened. “And Brayden is mine.”
Something like admiration crossed Carter’s face.
Chloe glanced down at her body. “I need clothes,” she stated. “Something more substantial than boxers and a t-shirt.”
“I took care of that,” Sophia replied. “Your bags are in the car.”
“I’ll get them,” Nicholas stated, moving silently out of the room.
“Now, how are we going to do this?” Calder asked Carter. “You know the best ways into town, correct?”
“So does Chloe,” Carter answered, looking to her.
“Then let’s figure out how we’re going to get in there without detection and take care of the fuckers,” Calder said.
I watched as Finn stepped forward. “I think I can help you with that.”
“How?” I asked.
A sly smile crossed his face as he answered, “With magic of course.”
