Chapter 21
Tyler POV
“They find him?” I ask, consumed with a burning rage. He’s dead. If the Alpha doesn’t get to Drake first, I’m going to make sure his death is slow and very painful.
Nixon rushed over to Kate’s place as soon as we told him about what happened at Point Bright. He’s the reason we knew to look there first. We saw that little waterfall she always projects when she’s blocking us out and we knew that he knew where it was. He was adamant on coming along, but Talon and I refused. Angel is our mate, our responsibility and if it wasn’t for us, she would never have felt the need to run away.
I’ve never seen Nixon as angry as he was, I swear he was close to ripping Talon and I a new hole. When he saw Talon carrying a passed out Angel, all that anger dissipated. When he heard about what Drake had done, well, all that anger came back at full force. The only way to calm him down was to make an agreement. When Drake is found, all three of us together are going to take him from Jax and give him our own style of punishment. Turns out Nixon isn’t really fond of Jax either, so he’s more than happy with the plan.
“No, nothing yet. Ronny says they’ve searched the entire territory. She thinks he must have crossed territories or moved to a neutral zone,” Nixon says, throwing his cell phone onto the table and letting out a sigh of frustration.
“If he thinks a neutral zone can save him, he’s got another thing coming,” Talon growls at my side, downing the rest of his beer.
“That crazy fuck is dead,” Nixon grunts. I’m starting to like the man more and more. If he and I had met under different circumstances we would of most probably hit it off from the start, but seeing as I’ve seen the way he’s held Angel and been there for her when I wasn’t, there’s a certain amount of animosity between us.
“Do you two honestly think it was a good idea bringing her here?” Nixon asks, glaring at me.
Okay, so maybe it wasn’t such a great idea bringing my mate to my girlfriend’s apartment, but we couldn’t take her to her father in the state she was in. Alpha was tearing the pack house to pieces when he found out Angel had left, he’s been issuing out orders for everyone to find her. I’ve only seen him scared like that one other time, and that was the night we had to rescue Angel in the woods of Point Bright; the night we thought she was going to die.
If Alpha saw the damaged that was caused while she was in the care of Jax, he would bring all kinds of hell down on that place. We can’t afford to go to war with our neighbouring pack, especially since we’re having an issue with rogues in the surrounding areas.
Kate is the only nurse I know that has enough loyalty to me, ensuring she won’t go telling the Alpha.
“We will take her back to the pack house as soon as she wakes up. I just needed Kate to clean her up a bit. If her father saw the state she was in before, he probably would have killed us too.” I fall back onto the sofa running my hands through my hair.
This entire situation is fucked up.
We’re her second chance mates. We’re her last chance at having a true mate. How could she have kept that from us?
“The dreadful things you have said to our mate…” Gunner, my wolf makes his voice heard inside my head. He doesn’t need to say the words, I know what I’ve done and the things I’ve said to her. I’m ashamed of the way I’ve behaved and of the way I’ve treated her. Gunner has been rather quiet these last few weeks, so has Jett, Talon’s wolf. We think it’s because we haven’t accepted our mate yet. No one knows this because we’ve kept it to ourselves, but we haven’t been able to shift. I feel trapped and claustrophobic. I want my wolf to run free, but he’s punishing me and in turn, he too is suffering.
“I’m going to check on her,” I say, standing up. Nixon is right at my side.
I open the door slowly and find Angel sitting on the side of the bed with Kate at her side. Kate quickly wipes away her tears. I’ve only ever seen Kate cry once and that was when she found me kissing Angel; Kate hates looking weak.
I frown at her. “You okay?” I ask through our pack link. She smiles, nodding her head.
My eyes turn to find Angel looking back and forth between Kate and I, a sad expression on her face. She obviously witnessed our exchange. I don’t want to hurt her anymore, I’ve already caused her enough pain, so I’ll keep my distance from Kate whilst I’m in Angel’s presence. Angel quickly looks down at her fingers, I try reaching to her through our pack link but nothing. She’s completely blocked off, not allowing anyone into her head.