Chapter 201
Kitson, it was a rare name. Of all the Wolves and the very few Lycans I had come across, Neah was the only one with that surname left.
“An ancestor?” I murmur, turning the brown book over in my hands.
“I would say yes, just by the way he talks about bloodlines. Neah is a female Alpha, her genetics had to come from somewhere.”
“Are the Lycans a threat?”
“I don’t know.” He mutters. “It talks about them rising again, but it was centuries ago, Dane. And all of those would be long dead. So it would be descendents.”
“Damien has always believed there are more out there. Are you telling me that my mate was not just the leader of Moonshine but is the leader of every Lycan out there?”
He nods his head at me.
“Have you told anyone else?”
“No, I came straight here.”
“Good. keep it that way. I need to figure out my next step.”
More Lycans, would they be a threat to our kind? What if there are more like Salem? Too feral to think straight.
“She couldn’t control Salem.” I mutter, “Not completely.”
“Damien told me something about that. It’s something to do with the rejection. Like Jenson, Jenson rejected you as his Alpha and rejected the pack too. It’s likely that Salem did that but possibly long before he met her. I’m not sure anymore. New information is seeping out everywhere. “Do you really believe that?”
He sucks in his cheeks. “I only really believe what I read and what I see for myself.”
“I need to speak to Damien.”
Klaus follows me upstairs. Knocking on Raven’s door, I call out to Damien, only to find him stepping out of the room next door where Dorothy slept now.
He yawns and looks at his watch “A bit early isn’t it?”
I nod to the door he is pulling closed, “She okay?”
“Still a few nightmares. She’s getting there.”
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Damien sits in the chair in my office, his legs spread as he leans forward and rests his elbows on his thighs. “So I was right.”
“It seems that way, yes. Why, why did you think there are more?”
“Shortly before I was bitten, Cassandra would talk to me, telling me it was such a shame that I wasn’t a true Lycan. Muttering something about how I would have been a good specimen in the Lycan pool but because I am a bitten Lycan, I wouldn’t be as good as the true thing.” He chuckles. “If only she could see me now.”
“That doesn’t imply there are more.”
“You’re right. But when I questioned her, she didn’t really give me an answer. To me, that suggests there was and is a lot more than I know about. A lot more than any of us know about.”
“But you have been around, you’ve never come across any?”
“Other than Mallory and the Rogues, no. Even when I was hunting for Salem, I didn’t come across any Lycan scents.”
“So it could just be a load of bullshit.”.
“Come on, Dane. We all know you don’t believe that.” Damien shakes his head at me. “What if they have found a way to conceal themselves?”
“You are talking about masking their scents?”
“Yes.”
I look over to Klaus. “What do you think?”
“Maybe there is an element of truth in his words,” He shrugs his shoulders
“So there could be, what, hundreds more?”
“It’s a big country, they could be hiding anywhere. Didn’t you tell me Moonshine hid up in trees?” Damien presses
I nod.
“What if they went the other way? What if they went underground?”
They both fall into silence. Waiting for me to speak.
“We are not going to do anything.” I mutter after discussing it with Aero.
They both raise their eyebrows at me in surprise.
“Neah will be giving birth in about a month. We have enough shit going on with Salem and the possibility that he might return. Plus you have Dorothy. I don’t need anymore crap right now.” “But…” Damien starts
“No. I’m still watching my mate constantly for any change. What do you think finding out there are more Lycans out there will do to her? She doesn’t need it and I sure as hell don’t need it.” “They are her kind. Your soon to be born pups kind.”
“I am doing what’s best for my mate and you need to keep your mouth shut. I mean it Damien, if a single word of this gets to her you will regret it.”
He snorts.
“You haven’t seen the things I’m capable of. And I will do what I need to do to protect my mate.”
My eyes flicker to Klaus who had already lowered his head in submission to my tone, but Damien stares back at me.
“Fine.” He snaps. “But I’m telling you, this will backfire. If I have learned anything about your mate, my Alpha, she fucking hates secrets. Now if you will excuse me, I need to go and check on Dottie.” He slams my office door shut behind him
If the situation were different, I probably would go looking. Just to get answers for Neah. They had been in hiding for centuries, it won’t hurt for them to stay there.
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