Chapter 225
Chapter 225
I wasn’t even aware Ashburn had a problem. I had to choose my words carefully. “My brother found a way to help you?”
“Yes! And as I said, I appreciate them for killing off the Rogue, it means the young girls in the pack are safe and the parents are no longer panicking.” His voice quivers a little bit. Like he was trying to find a reason to keep his hands clean. To keep himself from falling under my orders. He didn’t want to follow in Roan’s footsteps and I respected that.
“Was it my brother that made the final kill?” I ask, trying to not let on that I didn’t know anything about what he was doing.
“Uh , no. I believe it was his lady friend, Blair.”
“I’m not asking anything of you.” I cut the conversation short. “No contract this time.” I mutter so he wouldn’t question it. “I’m happy they could be of service to you.”
He is quiet, but I hear him breathing down the phone. “Are there more?” he asks after what felt like an eternity.
“When I last spoke to you. I told you that there are Lycans. I even told you my mate was one. Though we did believe that there were very few. But now, “ I pause. It was only fair to be clear with him. “There is a possibility. What I didn’t tell you is that my mate is the Lycan Alpha.”
I watch Damien cock a brow at me, a smirk appearing on his face.
Ryan pauses again. And I can only imagine the questions running through his head. “Can she control them?”
I didn’t know how to answer that. She did have a hold over the ones trying to attack us but Salem had fought against it and I wondered if it would be the same with the others. I didn’t even know if
she had a hold over Damien or Mallory.
“Time will tell.” I mutter into the phone.
“And Rogues? Are there more? Jenson and Blair left without saying another word. I didn’t even get to ask any more questions. Do I bury the Rogue?”
I glance over at Damien, knowing that he could hear both sides of the conversation. He mouths the word ‘burn’ at me.
“Burn the Rogue and as for asking me if there are more, the truth is I don’t know.”
“So what do I do?”
“Train your guards to be better.”
“Right.” I hear the hesitation in his tone. The same hesitation I had heard from many others. It won’t be long until he is asking me for my help. It had been a longtime since I had forced anyone into a new contract. But if it worked in my favour, I was never going to say no.
“Thank you for calling me Ryan. I hope you are settling into your Alpha duties. If you need any assistance, don’t hesitate to let me know.” I put the phone down before he had a chance to reply.
“So I was right.” Damien mutters.
“It appears so.”
“She does.” He mutters.
“What?”
“His question about Neah. She does have a hold over us. She has never used it, but in the same way as your Wolves feel your power over the pack, she has it over us.”
I had felt it. I had felt the lingering power when I first laid eyes on her. When I watched her thin frail frame slide down that door until her ass hit the floor. The power radiating from her was one of the things that drew me to her. Well other than her being my mate.
“If it’s present, then how could Salem fight it?”
He scowls. “What was she like when she forced the others to obey her orders?”
“Confident. She had been upstairs, hiding with Jess. The pair of them came out when Cassandra made Jess bring Neah to her. But it was a plot.” I smile, “I could feel her power, but ….it’s not always present now. It’s the strongest when she is around our boys.”