Clemmens looks at me for a long while. “What would you do if someone heard what you said earlier today? About your alpha and your pack?”
“How would you know?” I retort, smirking at him. “You weren’t there.”
Jonah chuckles. “You are sharp, even when you have had a few drinks.”
Clemmens evades my question and repeats his own. “So, what would you do?”
I fold my fingers and look him in the eye. I am of the same rank as he is. It’s not the time to be weak. “It would mean there was no going back,” I say. “And I don’t care.”
Clemmens leans back, folding his arms. “I guess the fourth round of drinks is on me then.”
Fuck yes, I did it!
While we drink throughout the evening, I take care not to have too much. I pretend to drink with them, while secretly getting rid of some contents of my glass when they aren’t watching. Luis was already wasted when we arrived; now he is barely standing anymore. Jonah disappeared after a while, and I see him talking to one of the girls. He has his arm around her all of a sudden and hands a serious-looking guy in a suit an envelope, before leading the girl towards a door that leads upstairs.
Soon afterward, another man disappears upstairs with one of the girls. He also hands the bouncer something that looks like… money.
“What’s up there?” I ask curiously.
“That’s a secret for the next time,” Clemmens says. He is slurring his words by now, and I focus back on him.
I order another round of drinks for us and then another. Once he finishes the last glass, Clemmens drops his head down, resting his forehead against his arms.
“Are you okay?” I laugh.
“Hm…” he mutters. “Rory.”
“Rory?” The name rings an alarm bell immediately. Rory?! As in Luna Rose’s cousin?
“I am sorry, Rory,” he mutters. “Why are you not here anymore… Everything sucks…” His voice trails off, and he blabs some more about Rory and how he misses him, and then he says something that alerts me even more. “Where are you, Rory? Please come back.”
Wait a moment… Isn’t the man supposed to be dead?! Sure, they made it look like he disappeared, but Luna Rose is convinced they got rid of him. She told us how painful it was for her not to know what happened to him.
Maybe…
Could it be possible?
I don’t manage to extract more info from Clemmens. He is too drunk to talk. Eventually, Jonah returns, a little more sober than most of the others. He laughs when he sees us. “Sorry, it seems you were stuck babysitting, huh?”
I grin. “No problem. Next time you will be the babysitter, though.”
Jonah snorts. “Yeah. Beta Clemmens usually can drink a lot, but he has been really stressed. The former luna appearing again must have been a crazy occurrence for him.”
“I can only imagine,” I say.
“Sorry,” Jonah says. “We were supposed to show you a little more of this place, but…”
“Oh, really?”
“Yes, why hide it now?” Jonah shrugs. “Alpha Jordan is interested in having you join the club. So, what do you think?”
I smile at him, sipping my drink. “Like I said earlier: No going back now.”
Jonah smirks at my words, nodding contentedly.
It’s 4:30 a.m. when I finally return to the pack. Jonah eventually managed to wake Clemmens up and had him drink some water. The guy was still wasted, but not as gone as when he muttered something about Rory.
As for me, I color the night a vast success. I promised my alpha and luna not to disappoint them, and I am so relieved I managed to get somewhere. However, first I need to talk to someone else.
