Page 28 of Arrested By My Mate

I nod, turning my phone over and over again in my hands. I don’t see my uncle taking the news well.

“He hated this place for some reason,” I murmur, remembering my last phone call with him.

“Why?” Tucker asks.

“I don’t know. He didn’t say.”

“What’s his name again?”

“Jim Turner.”

Tucker frowns and my heart starts to beat faster.

“Do you know him?”

“The name sounds familiar. He might have lived here a year or two ago, before Griffin and Ryker became our pack’s Alphas and cleaned this place up.”

“Cleaned it up, how?” I ask hesitantly.

“I was only here for the end part, but I guess that it was pretty bad. The old pack had members with…no scruples. They would run drugs, girls, everything. There was a lot of theft and murder, and it was just bad.”

“So, what happened to them?”

“They all left. Some were arrested, some were killed, but most just left.”

“Could it be possible that they didn’t go far?” I ask, a sinking feeling starting in my gut.

“It’s possible. I don’t know if anyone kept track of where they went, just that they were no longer here.”

I can see that he’s worried too, and I stand and make my way over to him.

“I’ll call the Alpha’s and ask. Maybe Crew can look into things too,” he tells me and I nod.

“Okay. I’m still going to call my uncle and tell him that I’m okay. Just on the off chance that he isn’t a part of that.”

He nods, squeezing my hand, and I pull up his number and hit dial.

“Nora!” Uncle Jim screeches as soon as the call connects. “Where the hell are you?”

I can feel Tucker grow tense next to me, and I realize that he must be able to hear what he’s saying.

“Does he always talk to you like that?” Tucker seethes, and I shake my head.

“I barely know him,” I remind him, and he growls.

“He needs to treat my mate with some fucking respect,” he says, and I can hear the warning in his voice.

“What? Who is that?” Uncle Jim asks, and I pause.

“I was just calling to let you know that I’m okay, and that I’m not going to be staying with you. I’ve decided to stay in Twisted Oak,” I tell him.

Silence greets me, and then Uncle Jim starts to speak, his voice low and deadly.

“I’ve arranged things. Now, you will get in your car and drive here, or you won’t like what happens, bitch.”

I’m so startled and caught off guard by this change in him that I don’t react, but Tucker sure does.

“No one talks to Nori like that. She’s not coming to stay with you. If I have my way, she won’t get within a hundred miles of you.”

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