“The doctor? An Omega?”
“Yes, and he is mated to my fellow triplet, Colton.”
“The nurse?”
“Yes, he’s the middle one and Carson, who you haven’t met, is the other one of our triad. You met Jackson and he has a twin brother, Logan who’s an interior designer and then there’s Dakota who’s a chef and my youngest brother, Zane, who is a computer geek.”
“What does Carson do?”
“He works with Steel and Slate in Dire Enterprises.”
“Holy shit! Dire Enterprises?”
“Yeah, you’ve heard of it?”
“Fuck, my father speaks of the company all the time. They do so much good for all wolf shifters. In fact, otherparanormals are pissed that Dire Enterprises only helps wolf shifters.”
“Well, that’s because of the restrictions placed on the Dire Wolf Treasure.”
“Dire Wolf Treasure? I thought that was a myth.”
“No, it’s very real and Steel’s father is the guardian of it.”
“Really? Wait, if I remember correctly, only a Dire Wolf can be a guardian and they are extinct…killed each other, according to what I read.”
“Well, you’re correct about the Dire Wolf guardian bit but wrong about not any being alive. Maximus, Oracle, Steel and Slate are all Dire Wolves…and now Daniel is the newest Dire Wolf.”
“I didn’t know Oracle was a Dire Wolf. Hold on…Jackson is an Alpha who got pregnant and had a Dire Wolf pup?”
“Not exactly. When he and Steel claimed each other, Jackson received the gift from the Fates to have pups. He’s an Alpha/Omega hybrid…the only one in the world as far as we know.”
“No shit! Wow, I wonder if the High Council knows about this?”
“You can’t tell anyone, not even your family. It would put my brother in even more danger considering we’re already hunted by our uncle. If he knew Jackson had a pup, he’d place a kill order on Daniel.”
“I’m missing something. Why would your uncle want to kill a baby?”
“Because he wants the pack lands belonging to my father…I mean to Jackson, now as the eldest son. If something happened to Jackson, title would pass to Daniel.”
“Why does he need your pack land? Silver Point pack lands are plenty adequate to meet their needs. I don’t get it. Is that why he had your parents killed?”
“Yes, but not only my parents. My uncle had my six younger siblings killed along with the rest of the pack…every man, woman and child. Gone, all gone.”
Dylon was appalled, but when he saw the sadness and pain cross his mate’s face, he pulled him into his arms once again. Holding him tightly, he whispered words of comfort and when his mate’s body relaxed again, he said, “Cody, we don’t need to talk about this.”
“No, it’s all right. Sometimes it feels so fresh…like it just happened,” Cody said, sitting upright. “It’s important you know why you can’t tell anyone about Daniel.”
“I understand now, and I won’t say a word to anyone including my parents. Do you know why they want your pack land?”
“Yeah, something about finding gold in the Fox River that runs through it.”
“You mean the motive was greed?”
“Yeah, and you know what’s funny? If my uncle had asked if he could pan for it, my father would have said ‘yes’. See, there was no reason to kill anyone. But what’s even worse is if I’d only told my father about my vision, my parents and younger siblings would be alive today.” And with that confession, Cody broke down, voicing the guilt he felt about not preventing the massacre.
Dylon lifted his mate onto his lap and wrapped his large muscled arms around him, holding him in a circle of love as he attempted to reassure him. “Darling, you don’tknow that for sure. There might be other reasons why your uncle killed your family. This doesn’t make sense. If your uncle wanted the gold, he could have challenged your father for control of your pack. But he didn’t. Instead he took a risk that could get him a death sentence if he was found out. Why take that chance when there was another way to get control? No, something isn’t right.”
Dylon’s words sank into Cody’s mind and he began to feel some hope. His mate was right. “But, what could it be?”
