“It better be.” I sniffled. “Or I’m going to issue a formal complaint to fate.”
Chapter 50
Hunter
Adeep dive into Delia’s life really opened our eyes on how much that witch was abusing our finances. Logan had given her so much from his personal account to keep the worst of it hidden.
“She’s taken three million from the pack account, on top of her stipend, and got another four million from you,” I said slowly, turning to him as he drove like a bat out of hell to find our mate—Logan and me in one car, Parker and Avery in another. “Dude, you can’t keep giving her money. She doesn’t appreciate it.”
Logan white-knuckled the steering wheel. “I know that. I told her she was being cut off, and this is what fucking happened.”
“That’s not your fault,” I insisted.
“Isn’t it?”
I could say it a thousand times, but I knew he wouldn’t believe me.
Parker had gotten investigators on the search in the hopes they’d move faster than the police. They were uncovering additional properties purchased or rented by one of Logan’s fathers under an alias. The police had checked each one in turn and come up empty. Now they’d narrowed it down to ascattering of neighborhoods about an hour away, so we were heading that direction. How many properties did these fuckers have access to?
“It’s not the money,” I said slowly. “I could care less about the amount she’s taken at this point, but the fact that she’s done nothing but treat you like shit your whole life and still expects the life of a queen is where I take fucking issue. She and your fathers are the ones at fault here. They took our mate and Parker’s sister to try for a fucking ransom.”
Logan’s phone buzzed, the call coming through the car speakers and lighting up the dash screen with an unknown number. “Answer it.”
I hit the accept call button, and Delia’s screech blasted over the speakers. “About fucking time.”
I put a hand on Logan’s shoulder in support. “Delia, what the fuck have you done?”
“Where’s Logan?”
“He’s driving. You’re stuck with me.”
She growled. “I wouldn’t have had to do anything if your wallets weren’t glued shut, you tight-fisted pricks.”
“Hand Clover and Maggie over safely, and this will go better for you.” I struggled to hold back my rage.
Logan’s hands tightened on the steering wheel. “Whatever she wants, we’ll give it to her. Whatever it takes to get Clover back. Even if we have to drain our accounts.”
“At least one of you sees sense,” Delia said, sounding too fucking pleased with herself.
“Delia, listen to me,” I snapped. “You kidnapped two omegas. You can’t walk back from this. The Ashcrofts are going to skin you alive for taking Maggie, and if you hurt them, you and your alphas will be lucky if you see the damn sky again after this.”
“But—”
“Oh my fucking god!” I growled. “I know you can’t be this fucking stupid. What did you think would happen? You’d commit a list of felonies and get to walk free with your fortune?”
“I mean?—”
Logan slammed on the brakes, jerking to the side of the road as a bright wave of pain slid through the bond.
“Delia, I swear, if our mate is hurt when we get to you, I’m going to throw you under a bus myself.”
“What do you mean, ‘get to us’?”
“You still have time to leave, but if you take them with you, you’ll be hunted for the rest of your lives. Let the girls go, take the chance you’re being offered because your reckoning is on its way. Better run, bitch.”
She panicked and ended the call.
Logan collected himself and hit the accelerator, zooming down the road toward our destination. “Why would you tell her to run?”
