Ali could see now that it was Trenton on top of her. She cried out, but he put his hand over her mouth.
“You wanted it three seconds ago, Ali, so don’t act all righteous.”
Ali pushed against his hard chest, but it was no use. He was too strong. The loud knock at the door was the only thing that kept his hands off her. She wouldn’t have been able to stop him, especially not in her weakened state.
Trenton boomed to the person on the other side of the door. “What the hell do you want?”
“I need to talk to you, sir.”
Ali recognized the voice as Trenton’s right-hand man, Scallop. She didn’t know his real name and hadn’t asked what the nickname was about. She was sure that she wasn’t going to like the reason he was called that. Ali was just thankful that he had came at the right time and she was given a reprieve. Her mind was thinking about leaving, but after what Trenton had just done, now she knew that she had to get out of there as soon as possible. She would take her chances with the sun.
All she could hope for was a longer reprieve than a few minutes. Trenton looked back at her and told her that he was going to be right back. She didn’t want to believe it and hoped that he wasn’t right. The last thing that she wanted was for him to come back.
Trenton left the room, and she went to look out the window. She was on the third floor and the way she was feeling, Ali was quite certain that she wouldn’t be able to make it down without breaking something. At one point she’d felt stronger, but the longer she had the hunger that the animal blood wasn’t able to quench, Ali was getting weaker.
She wished and prayed, hoping that she would be given some time to get out of there. Her heart was breaking that it wasn’t really Calum that was in her bed. She wanted it to be him so badly and even though Trenton had just looked just like him for a time and she’d wanted him, there wasn’t the same feel in her as there was before. This time it had felt strange. Wrong.
* * *
Trenton was cursing Scallop.
“What the hell is wrong with you? Do you know what it is that I was doing? What you just interrupted?”
Scallop nodded his head that he did. He had caught a glimpse of the two of them on the bed and it hadn’t taken much to figure it out. There were shredded clothes on the floor and everyone in the coven knew his appetite. Everyone was surprised that he’d waited as long as he did. Trenton wasn’t known for his patience in any matter, so that he was playing into hers told Scallop that there was something different about Ali. He didn’t see it, but it wasn’t his job to ask questions. Now, he had some bad news that he needed to tell his boss and he didn’t want to be the one that told him and faced his wrath. It wasn’t a pretty picture.
“Sorry, sir. There is something that I have to tell you…”
Scallop paused to get his courage up. His beady eyes were looking around at anything that wasn’t Trenton looking at him the way that he was. Finally, Trenton told him to come out with it. His mind was still behind him in the room and every second was too long to wait after he’d decided that it was time.
“I’m getting reports that about thirty of our guys were killed tonight.”
That got Trenton’s attention, and he didn’t know what to say. He hadn’t thought that it would be something like that and it took a minute for his mind and his body to change directions. War was always the priority though. Ali was going to have to wait.
He didn’t even bother to go back in. The two men talked for a time about what was going to happen next, even though Trenton was unsure what it was going to turn out to be. He didn’t have to ask who had done it. Only one clan, one set of enemies, was able to take out so many of his own. It was Calum and his pack.
“This is going to have to end once and for all. We can’t have those beasts constantly shadowing us. The plan has to be now before they keep weakening us by taking out our new recruits.”
Scallop agreed with a grin. He was ready to be done with them as well.
“It’s time to take out their village. Wipe them off the face of the planet, and we won’t have to worry about them changelings again. I think I have found a way.”
