“I’m going to be bored out of my mind. I don’t see why you couldn’t have just left me at the house.”
“I want you with me. I need you.” He stopped before they reached the offices and gathered her to him, kissing her lips.
Since being with Remy he was spending less and less time in his wolf mode. Last night he’d slept with Remy in his human form for hours. He hadn’t sleep in human form for months.
She pushed against him and gazed up at him. “It is nice to be needed, but I’m sure you could have gone a couple of hours without me. I want to go visit Sara. I’m hoping if I can get her on my side then she can help me with Faith.”
Letting her go, he walked down the wide hall, passing his brother’s and Major Black’s office, then he came to Ava’s. Her door was ajar, and as they walked by, he saw her talking on the phone. Ava was the only one who had an office to herself. He shared his with Sebastian. He didn’t want to tell Remy that he’d called Tray while she’d been in the shower earlier, and Tray didn’t want Remy near his mate Sara, and Kane hadn’t cooled down either.
Remy chased after him. “Hey, don’t just walk away.”
He growled in frustration, and for the first time today his wolf fought his cage. “Let your friends cool down. Give them a couple of days to get over the ordeal with the demons.”
Remy studied his face, and he moaned as her eyes glistened with tears after a moment. “Did you call and they told you they didn’t want to see me? I know the demon fight the other day was huge, but I thought Sara, Kirby, and Faith didn’t get caught by the demons?”
Scrubbing his hands over his face, he swore. “They didn’t, they are just hurt with how you left and everything that’s been happening.”
He opened the door to his office and found Sebastian sitting at the table. He looked shocked to see Arden, then he saw Remy and he smiled and relaxed. “You didn’t have to come in,” he told Arden. “You can go and be with your mate. I have everything covered.”
Reaching for Remy’s hand, Arden pulled her to him and wrapped his arms around her. “Sebastian, I don’t know if you’ve met my mate, Remy.”
Sebastian didn’t move from where he sat, and he didn’t so much as glance at Remy again, all of which Arden was very grateful for. “Yeah, I’ve met her before. Hi, Remy.”
“Hi, Sebastian. It’s nice to see you again.” Remy wiggled in his hold, but he wasn’t letting her go. He took deep breaths in of her scent and surrounded himself with her.
“I haven’t been pulling my weight around here with the paperwork, so I thought I’d come in for an hour or two and help catch up,” Arden said as he looked at his desk, surprised when he didn’t see pile upon pile of paperwork.
“Sure. I was just writing up a statement of what we’re doing to train the new recruits. They want them ready to fight, but fucking hell, we lost one of the highly trained ones the other night.” Sebastian raked his fingers through his hair. “Logan is saying we’re too easy on them because they’re human—”
“Easy?” Remy butt in. “My God, Kirby told me some of the things she saw you do to her brothers, and if that’s going easy on them, then I’d hate to fucking think what you’d have them doing if you were hard on them.”
Arden stroked her arms, soothing her. “What Kirby told you we did to them is nothing. If they can’t survive that, then they can’t survive a demon. Pixie, think about it, they don’t have powers like you, and Faith has been training with us since she was just a child. Plus, you and the other women are mated to werewolves, so you have the extra abilities, like healing faster, better stamina, and so on. Hayden and Logan now have that too, and with their powers and being already trained they are deadly.”
Arden nodded to Sebastian. If Remy mind’s made a sound every time she was thinking, he knew it would be beeping right now. Sebastian narrowed his eyes, and Arden knew he was confirming what he’d just said.
“I’ve spoken with Rane and the others about this, but I want your opinion too,” Sebastian said to Arden. “I think we should ask the other wolves to help. We need more of us to teach them. I don’t think we should hold our strength back when we battle them.”
Arden nodded in agreement. “You’re right. What did the others say?”
“They don’t think it would be fair to the other wolves, as they already have so much on their plate. Most pull double night shifts and work day jobs. Kane’s worried about killing the human men before they get in the field.”