“You know him?” I ask.
“I met his beta occasionally,” he says. “You know, when I wasn’t yet treated as a disgrace, I sometimes had to attend certain events.”
“Clemmens must have been there,” I add.
“He was.” Griffin pauses. “I knew he was a loser. Gave me pathetic loser energy from the first moment on.”
“Is that even a thing?” Forest asks. “Because if it is, I bet I had to give the same vibes.”
“No!” Griffin says. “You never did. You were an idiot and maybe a bit of a doormat, but you were also a victim of your fucking psycho parents.”
I nod vehemently. “I agree.”
“So, how can I help?” Griffin asks.
Forest sighs. “It’s dangerous to—“
“Fuck it, Forest! Shut up,” Griffin snarls. “You let Rosea put her life at risk, and you do the same. I am not going to just stand by.”
“I was actually hoping you would offer your help,” I say. When Forest looks at me, I shrug. “I’d have a few ideas,” I admit.
Forest sighs, but then shows me a smile. For a moment, he reaches out his hand as if to touch me, but then probably remembers we aren’t anywhere where we need to pretend. “If my luna has plans,” he says. “Then it’s probably something good.”
He calls me his luna, although we aren’t in public. I guess he got kind of used to it, but still, I can’t help but relish the feeling of receiving some respect, after all the ways Jordan shunned me.
“So, the plan, Luna,” Griffin leans forward, eyeing me curiously. “What can I do?”
“We need to get Lissa out of the picture first,” I say. “She is the weakest link and needs to go before we can go against Donna and Harry.” I look at Griffin insistently. “I need you to follow her around, subtly, particularly at night or evening hours.”
“What do you think she is doing?” Forest asks.
“We pretty much verified that she had an affair with Jordan,” I say. “I‘ll bet he isn’t the only one.”
“But it’s not illegal to sleep with pack members,” Griffin says. “It won’t make her look good because she was all over Forest, but would it truly be enough to be her downfall?”
“If it’sjustunmated pack members, it’s fine,” I say.
“You think it isn’t?”
I recall the gazes some of the warriors exchanged when Lissa was hitting on Forest in front of me, but much more so do I remember the looks on the faces of the omegas in the staff; those who were serving us that day.
“She must be furious that Forest showed so much loyalty towards me and not towards her,” I muse. “I bet she is doingsomething about it. We are talking about a person who willingly plotted to get her friend killed. That’s not just a normal shunned woman. She is a murderer and an accomplice of Forest’s parents.”
“She is,” Forest says. “When you put it like that, I wonder what else she is up to.”
“There is no way she is sitting idly,” I say. “It’s not only you who tossed her aside, your parents did, too.”
“They did?” Griffin asks.
“Obviously, they are busy now that I am here,” I say. “They pretty much hate me, but to Lissa it might look like they are tossing her aside.” I pause. “I mean, technically, they are doing just that. She was just a tool.”
“Disposable,” Forest says. “I would feel bad for her if she didn’t kill my mate. She can rot in a cell for all I care.”
Griffin nods firmly. “I will make sure to follow her around, discreetly. You can trust me, Luna, I am good at that.”
“Should you admit to being good at snooping around?” Forest chuckles.
“Well, it helped me to get around your parents during the last few years,” Griffin grins. “My abilities will come in handy now. Let’s make sure that these assholes get what they deserve!”
