Kainodded. “Yes, I would have.”
Maxsmirked but I leveled his gaze with mine. “Seriously, thank you.”
Maxreturned my serious look and nodded. “You realize Kai will never let you out ofthe house again, right?”
Iglared at Kai, who glared back. “This just means we have to take out Layla now.RAIDOS won’t be after me once they know she is gone. The sooner we end thisthreat, the sooner we can move on.” Anger rumbled in my chest. “Enough bullshit.Let’s kill this bloodsucker.”
Maxstifled a laugh at my comment and Kai cut him a glare.
ThenKai suddenly stood. “You get some rest. I have to make a few phone calls.”
‘Kai,’I started but he cut me off.
‘Iheld my dying, bleeding wife and thought all hope for my future happiness wasover. Now you want to run back into danger the first chance you get! I get tobe pissed!’he roared.
Iflinched. Shit. He was right. That must have been awful for him. I rememberedhow awful it was for me when RAIDOS had captured him and I had gone in to gethim back. They had him naked and strapped to a gurney, a few of his fingers cutoff. He had been in rough shape and it had terrified me.
‘You’reright. I’m sorry.’
Kainodded, Max stood and they both left the room. Well, that didn’t go as planned.I sighed and decided to take a shower to get the crusty blood out of my longhair.
WhenI went out to get breakfast, I saw that Kai had made me a veggie omelet and wascleaning the dishes. All was forgiven, that was my Kai. He couldn’t stay mad atme for too long and he always worried if I had eaten enough. I wrapped my armsaround him and leaned in to cradle my nose against his neck. He took a deepbreath and I felt his possessive love settle into the mate bond. He didn’t wantme to ever leave this house again.
“Youwant to lock me in the basement with Jeremy, don’t you?” I joked.
Hegave a short bark of laughter. “Yes, I do.”
Ichuckled and pulled away from him, smiling.
Hepushed the omelet in front of me. “Eat,” was all he said, kissing my forehead beforewalking back into his office.
Idid and it was amazing. Kai made omelets with a touch of Indian spices in them;they were beyond delish. I chugged some orange juice and realized my headachehad eased. Feeling better, I went to find Kai and heard him yelling loudly onthe phone in his office.
Openingthe office door, I met his yellow gaze.
“Iwarned you!” he screamed into the phone and slammed it down as I walked in.
“What’swrong?” I stood there, panicked. His emotions were all over the place. Fear,sadness, and rage burned through the mate bond.
“Kai?”
Helooked up at me, eyes burning yellow, his voice gruff. “I warned the council aboutwhat Jeremy told us. I told them to tell all of the packs that vampires mightattempt to abduct our females. To use them as breeders for Layla’s sick plan.”
No!Then I knew. I felt it through the mate bond. Sadie. His ex-girlfriend of fiveyears. She’d been taken. So had others from other packs. I quickly siftedthrough our pack bonds. All of our females were accounted for. I sighed inrelief.
Reachingout, I touched his hand. “Kai, I’m so–”
Hestood quickly. “I’m going to go tell Earl to be extra vigilant when guardingthe perimeter. Grab Max and meet me in the barn.”
Inodded. This bitch has gone too far! Stealing female werewolves to use asincubators. It made my omelet threaten to come back up. Layla needed to betaken outnow! I stormed out of the house and rounded up Max and we madeour way to the barn.
Maxpaced the barn in anger as we waited for Kai to show up. “Sadie is like one ofour own,” he stated.
Itried not to let it hurt my feelings. She was in this pack for a long timebefore me. I nodded and sat down cross-legged on the floor.
“Ifeel like it’s all my fault. This all started when I survived the change,” Iconfessed.
Maxsat next to me and put an arm around me. “Hey, you are the best thing that everhappened to Kai and our pack.”
